The Company You Keep & Weather Underground (& Berkeley in the Sixties)

To reiterate what I stated at the end of Thursday's class:

--You have to watch Weather Underground at home
--I strongly encourager you to watch at least parts of Berkeley in the 60s
--I will screen The Company You Keep in class on Monday

As for your blog post: it must engage Weather Underground and depending on what you've covered in previous blogs you may or may not have to address Company You Keep as well. (Consult assignment description....). You may but don't have to address Berkeley.

If you have questions please let me know.

Hour of the Furnaces & Antonio das Mortes

Cannes Film Festival Internship Opportunity

 The English & Film Studies Undergraduate Advising Office 

is pleased to offer 

the following informational session: 

Internship Opportunities at the 

Cannes Film Festival 

Featuring 

Michael Bremer, Director of Student Programs for the American Pavilion 

AND UNL Student Aliza Brugger (featured above) 

Thursday, September 25, 2014 

11:00 – 12:30 a.m. 

Bailey Library, Andrews 229 

The American Pavilion is the communications and hospitality center for independent film industry professionals doing business at the Cannes Festival and Marché du Film. Each year, AmPav offers student programs that complement the formal education that young filmmakers and aspiring entertainment industry professionals receive in college. Program details are available at http://www.ampav.com. 

Choice of Hercules/Under My Skin

'The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the Critique of Pop Culture'

The New Yorker ran this really great column on Benjamin and Adorno and the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and even though it's sort of tangential to the class, some of the ideas discussed in the piece have already appeared in/influenced the thinking of the 1960s German New Left.

Link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/naysayers

[I don't know if this is a legitimate use of the course blog, but I'm doing it anyway.]

- Ben Curttright

Children of the Revolution/Baader Meinhof Complex