Resources for October 2, 2014

"Mumia Abu-Jamal as Commencement Speaker." Inside Higher Ed (October 1, 2014)


(T)he true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses: its re-emergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, the “happy ending” (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression (171). -- Wood, Robin. "An Introduction to the American Horror Film." Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. ed. Barry Keith Grant. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press, 1984.


Merritt, Naomi. "Cannibalistic Capitalism and other American Delicacies: A Bataillean Taste of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Film-Philosophy 14.1 (2010)

Leonard, Christopher. "The Chicken Competition." Guernica (October 1, 2014) ["How poultry companies concentrate wealth and pit farmers against each other in a secretive tournament pay system."]

"Food Politics." Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

"Empire by the Numbers." Guernica (September 30, 2014)





Lopez, German. "Map: The world has set off at least 2,400 nuclear weapons since 1945." Vox (October 1, 2014)


“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but we must take it because our conscience tells us that it is right.” —Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Proper Sense of Priorities" (1968)


Wood, Robin. "The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s." Horror, The Film Reader. ed. Marc Jancovich. NY: Routledge, 2002: 25-32.

López. Ian Haney. "Dog Whistling About ISIS — and Latinos Too." Moyers & Co. (September 30, 2014)