Figuring out the rest of the semester! Can you all help?
Hi everyone,
How will we fit it all in?
For next week (April 24), make sure you've finished Almanac of the Dead and read the poem “Somebody Blew Up America” by Amiri Baraka. (Click on the poem title to access it.)
I'm planning to show you The Battle of Algiers (121 minutes) and Homotopia (27 minutes). The Black Panthers watched The Battle of Algiers, as have Pentagon officials trying to stop insurgent movements. I feel like it's a film this class needs to engage, and Homotopia invokes it in some neat ways. That leaves us only 30 minutes to discuss the book, which I'd like us to discuss in relation to the poem. Here's the basic question I want us to address: What is Baraka's history, and what is Almanac's future? We'll have to stay on schedule to make this work.
I have imagined May 1 to be our special May Day Class! We have presentations by EW and KW scheduled for this day, and I'd also really still like to show you Matewan, which is 135 minutes, but that would leave just 45 minutes for the two presentations, which isn't fair, huh? I know VJ really wants to see this movie, and I think it's some important issues we haven't addressed together. I have an idea for how to make it work.
Here's what I'd like to suggest: KW could do her presentation on the 1st, and EW could do hers on the last day, May 8 (if she's willing), when we'll also discuss Angela Davis' book Are Prisons Obsolete? on that last day.
MH still wants to fit a presentation in too. We could add him into the last day too. But I sure would like additional time for us to talk more. Can we figure something out? Can you all please help me come up with a time when we can meet together, maybe during finals week?
Here are some trailers and film clips to get you excited! I really do want us to see at least Battle of Algiers and Matewan. I'd like to keep Homotopia in too if possible, especially after JM's prez. But I am definitely open to suggestions and ideas.
How will we fit it all in?
For next week (April 24), make sure you've finished Almanac of the Dead and read the poem “Somebody Blew Up America” by Amiri Baraka. (Click on the poem title to access it.)
I'm planning to show you The Battle of Algiers (121 minutes) and Homotopia (27 minutes). The Black Panthers watched The Battle of Algiers, as have Pentagon officials trying to stop insurgent movements. I feel like it's a film this class needs to engage, and Homotopia invokes it in some neat ways. That leaves us only 30 minutes to discuss the book, which I'd like us to discuss in relation to the poem. Here's the basic question I want us to address: What is Baraka's history, and what is Almanac's future? We'll have to stay on schedule to make this work.
I have imagined May 1 to be our special May Day Class! We have presentations by EW and KW scheduled for this day, and I'd also really still like to show you Matewan, which is 135 minutes, but that would leave just 45 minutes for the two presentations, which isn't fair, huh? I know VJ really wants to see this movie, and I think it's some important issues we haven't addressed together. I have an idea for how to make it work.
Here's what I'd like to suggest: KW could do her presentation on the 1st, and EW could do hers on the last day, May 8 (if she's willing), when we'll also discuss Angela Davis' book Are Prisons Obsolete? on that last day.
MH still wants to fit a presentation in too. We could add him into the last day too. But I sure would like additional time for us to talk more. Can we figure something out? Can you all please help me come up with a time when we can meet together, maybe during finals week?
Here are some trailers and film clips to get you excited! I really do want us to see at least Battle of Algiers and Matewan. I'd like to keep Homotopia in too if possible, especially after JM's prez. But I am definitely open to suggestions and ideas.
posted by adrienne at 4/19/2008 07:41:00 PM
5 Comments:
now i KNOW you're not thinking of cutting the gay movie! ...
joshua
I think we should arrange two extra movie showings before finals week (finals week might be even hardere to schedule something during for most people) so we won't miss out on them...and still have ample time to talk in class. I know we tried that before and not everyone could make it, but maybe find time that the majority of people can make it? Even if it's right after our original class time. I know I still want to see all those movies, but still have discussions and presentations too. Those are my two cents.
~S.C.
yeah i think the additional outside-of-class-time could work. Did we actually do one of those before? oops, missed that. i can do Wed. May 3rd (not any other wednesdays), or Thursdays after class or Fridays or Saturdays. or Tuesday evenings! i like weekends better tho, less to stress about. we can rent a room at the public library for movie screenings, or maybe my house using my roommates projector...or probably at school, right?
everyone's invited to my art show on may 17th too, we can talk more there and bring poems to read!
-mmartha.
Those films are super awesome and important, but in my mind the top priority for our class is finishing the presentations and spending more time on discussion. I think our discussion is so important that we may want to move the films or some of the films to an outside of class gathering.
EW is doing a presentation on racism and the China-Olympics protests! This is a very timely issue, as is KW's presentation on impeachment. I'm working out a schedule with them right now. MH has been finishing his presentation on corporate evil too, and I think we can still make all this work somehow. I am planning on leaving this week the same: Battle of Algiers followed by Homotopia. I really don't want to lose Matewan, especially since we haven't ventured into that area yet, but if VJ can attend an outside screening, maybe that can be our outside class? I know there are many more things, like AS's Assata Shakur mini-prez. I'm going to have to ask you all to determine the outside-class times. I can get the room, but I need to ask you all to select the time for me. Thanks.
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