Monday, August 1, 2011

The Class - Entres Les Murs


The Class (Entres Les Mur - Laurent Cantet, France, 2008, 128min)

On the final day of the Institute, we joined Ara to disucss themes surrounding Pedagogy, Postcolonialism, Ethnic and Racial Difference, Immigration and Diaspora, the Role of Language, Ethics, Authorship and Performance.

Bonus Material: In This World

Check out clips shown in Thursday's lecture below:

-The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin,1917)
-The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppala,1974) - Immigration scene
-The Terminal (Steven Spielberg, 2004)
-Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese, 2006)
-Amira Al Sharif, Photojournalist from Yemen's photographs of Women in the U.S.