Resources for October 14, 2017

Benshoff, Harry, ed. A Companion to the Horror Film. John Wiley and Sons, 2014.

Buckler, Dana. "Halloween (1978)." How Is This Movie? (October 9, 2017)

El Goro. "Over the Edge (1979) and Pump Up the Volume (1990)." Talk Without Rhythm #373 (June 11, 2017)

Entralgo, Rebekah. "Kentucky governor says he’ll never legalize marijuana because of the ‘overdoses.’" Think Progress (October 12, 2017)

Herron, Christopher. "The Underground Economy: Sean Baker Interview (The Florida Project)." The 7th Art (October 13, 2017)

Morrison, Irene. "Dystopian Surrealism for Our Times: Karin Tidbeck’s Amatka." Los Angeles Review of Books (October 14, 2017)

Nelson, Glenn. "Liz 'Snorkel' Thomas Wants You to Thru-Hike Your City." Outside (September 19, 2017) ["The former fastest woman to hike the AT is stitching together ambitious routes right in the middle of urban civilization."]

Thomas, Rob. "Columbus is a Beautifully Designed Film about Architecture and Connection." The Cap Times (October 13, 2017)

Here is the trailer for Sir! No Sir! - good for combatting the notion that if you protest the symbols/rituals of America in a call for justice, or more properly against injustice, that you are disrespecting the soldiers/veterans that have fought in our wars. This is propaganda as anyone that has looked into resistance movements knows that soldiers/veterans have always been a major force as they very clearly recognize what is at stake and what we are actually doing here & abroad

Of course one of the biggest mistakes we can make no matter what perspective you are coming from, in this case regarding soldiers/veterans (but any other large heterogeneous grouping of individuals), is to take such a large and varied group and treat them as having one mind/perspective and represent/target them in that way (and to use that as a weapon to forge consensus or fear in the 'public mind' - for another example explore 'Islamaphobia')

The question, though, that remains is why do we so rarely hear about, if ever, the stories that are told in this documentary. Why the insistence from Reagan onward that it was those damn student/hippie protesters and the liberal media that ended the war in Vietnam? Why the obvious exclusion of these courageous soldiers/veterans that effectively resisted and challenged the war (and this is ongoing, many organizations, two examples you can find on Facebook: Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans For Peace ) - do we only honor and respect some veterans? Who gets to make that decision - why?