Battle of Algiers/Battaglia di Algeri, La (Algeria/Italy: Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966: 121 mins)
Criterion Collection: Battle of Algiers
Jean Martin: 1922-2009 (played Matthieu: Criterion)
Peter Matthews: Battle of Algiers--Bombs and Boomerangs (Criterion)
Battle of Algiers: Clips (Google Video)
Sheila K. Johnson: The Battle of Algiers and Its Lessons (Common Dreams)
Charles Paul Freund: The Pentagon Film Festival--A Primer for The Battle of Algiers (Slate Magazine)
Democracy Now: The Battle of Algiers—1966 Film Depicting Algerian War of Independence Against French Occupation Parallels Brutal U.S. Occupation of Iraq
Alexander Billet: A Marxist Poet--The Legacy of Gillo Pontecorvo (Monthly Review)
Kevin Berry on The Battle of Algiers
Critical Theory:
Frantz Fanon (Post-Colonial psychoanalyst/activist/theorist)
Postcolonial Texts
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
Ideology
Hegemony
Cultural Hegemony
Optional Outside-of-Class Response Viewings:
Taxi to the Dark Side (USA: Alex Gibney, 2007: 106 minutes)
Alex Gibney’s latest film Gonzo
NOW on PBS: Torture Tactics—An Interview with Alex Gibney
Taxi to the Dark Side and the Bush Administration’s Torture Policies
Film School: Alex Gibney on Taxi to the Dark Side
Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Gonzo
Why Democracy: Notes, Context and Resources for Taxi to the Dark Side
Standard Operating Procedure (USA: Errol Morris, 2008: 116 mins)
Errol Morris: The Photographs Actually Hide Things From Us
Studio 360: Errol Morris on Standard Operating Procedure
Marilyn Ferdinand: Response to Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris: Will the Real Hooded Man Stand Up
Laurie Calhoun: Death and Contradiction--Errol Morris’ Tragic View of Techno Killers
Official Website for Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris’ website
Documentary Films:
Cineaste: Extreme Makeover--The Changing Face of the Documentary
In the Battle for Social Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S.
Jon Bang Carlsen: How to Invent Reality
Morris Dickstein: Through the Documentary Looking Glass
American Cinematographer: The Art of Filming Dangerously
Offscreen: The Gap--Documentary Truth Between Reality and Perception
Christian Science Monitor: Documentary or Propaganda?
Center for Social Media: Changing the World One Documentary at a Time
Media Rights: Using Grassroots Documentary Films for Political Change
Confessions of a Documentary Film Teacher
Witness: See It, Film It, Change It (Human Rights Videos From Around the World)
Green Cine Primer: Documentary
Photographic Truth in the Digital Age (archive)
Representation in the Arts
DocumentaryFilms.net
International Documentary Association
Politics and Filmmaking:
Cineaste: The Art and Politics of Cinema
Julie Hilden: Free Speech and the Concept of “Torture Porn”
Filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron and activist/author Naomi Klein: The CIA’s Love Affair with Shock Therapy
Road to Guantanamo Actors Questioned Under Terror Act After Film Festival
Bright Lights Film Journal: The Altered State of War
David Crawford: Realism vs Reality TV in the War on Terror
Political Film Society
Green Cine Primer: Political Thrillers
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