This film series will explore how films create (ideal) viewers in and through cinematic techniques like narrative style, plot, editing, scene sequencing, dialogue, and emotional response. Films are powerful means of evoking thought, emotion, and judgement around representations of different social and political issues: legal and political culture, crime, punishment, intimacy, race, identity, gender, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, dignity, and value, e.g. Film has become an essential form of cultural activity that either challenges us to interrogate dominant norms and practices or deepen our uncritical allegiance to them.
[A] "Small Things Like These" (2024, 98 minutes) Adapted from a novella by Irish author Claire Keegan, it’s centered on Cillian Murphy as Bill.
The loving dad works hard delivering coal in the shivering days leading up to Christmas 1985. But a glimpse at what’s really going on with the ‘loose’ girls sent to work in the laundries at the local convent rattles everything he believes in.
Live (In-Person Only) - Not Recorded