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 HAWAI`I
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL STARTS NOVEMBER 7
The Ice Storm will open the 1997 Hawai`i International
Film Festival at the historic Hawai`i Theatre on Friday, November
7. Director Ang Lee will be present to introduce the film
and answer questions afterward. The festival, which lasts
a week on O`ahu and moves to the Neighbor Islands the following
week, features films from Asia and the Pacific. POLITICAL
FILM SOCIETY members will vote for the film at the festival
that best raises political consciousness.
PFS
PUBLISHES EIGHTH WORKING PAPER
Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post have contributed Political
Paranoia as Cinematic Motif: Stone's "JFK" as
the eighth essay in PFS' Working Paper Series. Other Working
Papers are also available:
#1 Genovese, Art & Politics: The Political Film as a Pedagogical
Tool
#2 Morlan, Pre-World War II Propaganda: Film as Controversy
#3 Giglio, From Riefenstahl to the Three Stooges: Defining
the Political Film
#4 Williams, The Real Oliver North Loses: The Reel Bob Roberts
Wins
#5 Savage, Popular Film & Popular Communication
#6 Aoki, "Chan Is Missing": Liberalism and the Blending of
a Kaleidoscopic Culture
#7 Allen, Using Film and Television in the Classroom to Explore
the Nexus of Sexual and Political Violence. .
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FILMS NOMINATED FOR 1997 AWARDS
DreamWorks' first major film, The Peacemaker,
has been nominated for an award as the best political Exposé
for 1997. Having demonstrated the feasibility of a scenario
in which "suit case" nuclear bombs could be hijacked from
the Soviet Union by forces loyal to Iran, Iraq, or terrorist
groups, Senator Richard Lugar called for an investigation
within a week of the premiere of the film. L.A. Confidential,
nominated for an award in the category Human Rights, reminds
us of pre-Miranda police methods and warns of the dangers
of returning to the era of rampant police abuse. Seven
Years in Tibet, which focuses on China's brutal war
against the Tibetan people, has been nominated for three categories-Exposé,
Human Rights, and Peace. Rosewood was earlier
nominated for the category of Human Rights. PFS members can
also nominate for the category Democracy.
HOLLYWOOD
CONTINUES TO CORRECT THE RECORD
During the blacklisting of the 1950s and 1960s, many screenwriters
were forced to ghostwrite scripts. Thanks to recent research
by the Writers Guild of America, revised credits are now being
issued to recognize Bernard Gordon for The Day of the
Triffids (1963), Albert Maltz for Broken Arrow
(1950), Nedrick Young for The Defiant Ones (1958),
and Abraham Polonsky for Odds Against Tomorrow
(1959).
PFS
PUBLISHES SYLLABI
Six course syllabi are also available from the POLITICAL FILM
SOCIETY
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