Resources for August 29, 2017

Beyl, Cameron. "The Directors Series: David Fincher, Pts 1-5." (Posted on Film Stage: September 22, 2015)

Bhala, Kara Tan, Raj Bhala and Arun Venugopal. "Whose Kansas Is It Anyway?" The United States of Anxiety (May 9, 2017)  ["The city of Olathe, Kansas, has been shaken since February, when a man gunned down two Indian immigrants in a bar there. Witnesses say the shooter yelled, “Go back to your country!” It was the first hate-crime killing after the 2016 presidential election. WNYC’s Arun Venugopal traveled to Kansas to speak with members of the Indian community about how they’re dealing with the deaths, and with their changing status in America. Indian Americans enjoy the highest household income of any ethnic group in America. Their socioeconomic success and status as a ‘model minority’ has increasingly been reflected in American popular culture, as well as Bollywood films, and has played into arguments that America is a meritocracy, rather than one defined by white supremacy. But increasingly, members of the community argue that their wealth will not insulate them from racial bigotry."]

Detroit (USA: Kathryn Bigelow, 2017) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive) 

Fitch, Alex, Neil Fox and Dario Linares. "Taxi Driver." The Cinematologists #45 (May 9, 2017) ["Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, scripted by Paul Schrader, has become a touchstone depiction of the alienated American experience post-Vietnam centered around a scintillating performance by Robert De Niro. Dario is joined by guest presenter Alex Fitch as they discuss the film's legacy, Scorsese as a director and all the other elements that give the film its classic status. And Neil and Dario expand on may of the key themes that permeate the work of arguably the greatest living American filmmaker."]

Freedman, Carl. "Russia 1917: You are There." The Los Angeles Review of Books (July 8, 2017)

Margolis, Harriet. "Introduction - 'A Strange Heritage': From Colonization to Transformation." Jane Campion's Piano. Cambridge University Press, 2000: 1-20.

Parras, Bryan. "As Catastrophic Flooding Hits Houston, Fears Grow of Pollution from Oil Refineries & Superfund Sites." Democracy Now (August 28, 2017)




Segade, Alexandro. "We Belong: On Sense 8." Art Forum (August 24, 2017)

Zero Dark Thirty (USA: Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)