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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  10/22/2020
  

  The Real Abbie Hoffman

  by Nathan J. Robinson

  While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10/21/2020
  

  Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7

  by Jeet Heer

  According to Jeet Heer, "Sorkin takes many liberties with the facts, most of which are designed to make both the New Left and its conservative opponents more palatable to contemporary liberal viewers."

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• SOURCE: Forward
  10/19/2020
  

  Sacha Baron Cohen Interviewed a Holocaust Survivor for the New ‘Borat;’ Now Her Daughter’s Suing

  The producers of the "Borat" sequel insist the interview was used to mock Holocaust deniers; surviving relatives argue the use of her story for satirical purposes was deceptive and inappropriate.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/19/2020
  

  Academy Museum Names Historian of Black Cinema as the New Chief Artistic Officer

  Jacqueline Stewart, a prominent historian of African American cinema, will join the Academy Museum in preparation for its April opening. She discusses how the museum will tell the story of film making and moviegoing. 

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• SOURCE: CBC
  10/17/2020
  

  Samuel L. Jackson's Enslaved and the Lost History of Canadian Slavery

  Canadian historian Charmaine Nelson says that many Canadians are overly accepting of the narrative of their nation as the endpoint of the Underground Railroad and unaware of the history of slavery in Canada. A new documentary by the famed actor highlights the need to push past comfortable understandings.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/12/2020
  

  Prof. Kiara Vigil: Why It Is Important To Highlight Roles Of Native Americans In History (audio)

  "This last spring, for the first time, I taught a class called Native Futures, and I thought that it would make sense to teach a class where Native people themselves not only are part of the past and the present, but they're going to be part of the future."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/10/2020
  

  A Famed Horror Director Mines Japan’s Real-Life Atrocities

  In a recent interview, Mr. Kurosawa, 65, said he found it hard to understand why Japan’s war crimes remained almost taboo among the country’s filmmakers 75 years after the conflict’s end.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/8/2020
  

  Why Americans Fall for Grifters: A Warning From a 1957 Film

  by Jake Tapper

  Journalist Jake Tapper reflects on the prescience of the 1957 Elia Kazan/Budd Schulberg film "A Face in the Crowd", which anticipated the power of inflammatory appeals in the mass media. 

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• SOURCE: KERA
  9/14/2020
  

  Hollywood’s Colorblind Illusion (audio)

  American Studies professor Justin Gomer, author of "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" discusses the political impact of Hollywood's treatment of race. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Native Actors Outside the Frame

  by Liza Black

  Liza Black's new book traces the lives of prominent and anonymous Native actors, examinng the way that Hollywood films exploited their labor and images while spinning narratives that justified the historical conquest of Native lands.

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• SOURCE: Broadway World
  8/31/2020
  

  PBS Will Air "Driving While Black" Documentary on October 13

  PBS will air a historical documentary examining the issue of mobility and freedom to travel as aspects of American racism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  9/1/2020
  

  Stanley Kubrick’s Calculated Rebellion

  A new biography of the acclaimed director focuses on his thematic obsession with rebellion and how it suceeds or fails.

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• SOURCE: WUNC
  8/26/2020
  

  Civil War And Southern Charm: How Hollywood Takes On The South (audio)

  Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes talk about watching films that gloss over the darker parts of Southern history, but they also explore how more contemporary films resonate with viewers as true to their own experiences.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/6/2020
  

  'And The World Went Crazy': How Hollywood Changed After Hiroshima

  Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s wrestled with the idea of a planet without humanity. After "Dr. Strangelove" satirized any effort to treat nuclear war seriously on the big screen, Hollywood viewed the bomb through schlock and horror, until the 1980s revival of sentiment for disarmament and "The Day After."

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• 8/7/2020
  

  Hiroshima (1953, Hideo Sekigawa)

  View a segment from, and read about, Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film "Hiroshima."

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/5/2020
  

  Epic Lego Battles Are A Smash On YouTube

  A subculture of Lego and military history enthusiasts has achieved notoriety for posting stop-motion videos of historic battles, despite the official non-violence policy of the building toy company. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Violence at the Root of the Silent Majority

  by Brian Tochterman

  As a vigilante film, “Joe” inaugurated a genre that exploded onto screens in the 1970s.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  75 Years Ago the First "Nuclear Race" Was in Hollywood

  by Greg Mitchell

  Despite Americans' keen interest and considerable fear in the atomic bomb after the end of World War II, the first commercial film to tackle the Manhattan Project was a bomb of a different sort. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/23/2020
  

  New Film Tells Tale of North Korean Orphans Sent to Europe

  The documentary film “Kim Il Sung’s Children” will be released June 25, the 70th anniversary of the Korean War’s start.

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?

  by Jerry Lembcke

  A historian of public perceptions of the Vietnam War (who served as a military chaplain there) warns that Spike Lee's latest film traffics in stereotypes of both American veterans and the Vietnamese people while reinforcing right-wing narratives about the war.