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Category: Education

Activist & Political · Documentaries · Education

“To Know Is Not Enough”: On Amy Goldstein’s Documentary The Unmaking of a College

February 10, 2022

The Unmaking of a College is a stealthy Hampshire College recruitment/endowment film, but it’s easier to breathe through the subtle sales pitch because the story is true and the message[…]

African · Colonialism · Education · Literature and Film · Women in Film

A Portrait of the Artist in Black and White: Euzhan Palcy’s Rue Cases-Nègres (1983) and François Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)

June 30, 2021

Much of the affective force of Palcy’s film closely resembles and draws on the deep emotional involvement Truffaut leads his audience to invest in the vulnerable, yearning ne’er-do-well Antoine Doinel.[…]

Category: Education

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