Films: ‘Sherman’s March’, Ross McElwee; ‘The Thin Blue Line’, Erroll Morris; ‘Roger & Me’, Michael Moore; ‘Hoop Dreams’, Steve James; ‘Civil War; Episode 1’, Ken Burns; ‘Pandemic’ (All episodes of this NetFlix documentary series.)OPTION 1: Films from the ’80s & ‘90sI.) Write a synopsis for each film, siting key moments throughout the film. 1 page […]

FILM: “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse” Directed by Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper, Fax Bahr.In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, ‘Apocalypse Now,’ his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage […]

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Field TripWe will not meet in class on the field trip week…. Instead you will complete one of the following options… Step 1: Select your locationOption 1: Take a “field trip” to one of the following:National Cryptologic Museum (free)https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/International Spy Museum ($)http://www.spymuseum.org/ National Law Enforcement Museum ($)https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/ DEA Museum (free) — Currently closed for renovation, […]

EXTRA CREDIT: Analyzing Subtext in Popular Culture Texts (Sponge Bob Square Pants)Watch the video essay using a Marxist analysis to analyze Sponge Bob Square Pants and think about the subtext of your favorite pop culture works. Find another popular culture ‘text’ (this can be film, youtube video, TikTok, music song, anything related to pop culture) […]