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19-21st February 1999
Michael Paris, Lecturer in the Department of Historical & Critical Studies at the University of Central Lancashire discussed this fascinating theme with features, shorts and extracts on 16mm film and projected video.
"Films reflect the society in which they are made and thus even the most neutral films have some political content. Because we enjoy films as an entertaining art form, we generally ignore the context in which they are made. However, when we explore the context and ask 'why was this film made?' we begin to reveal the political content of the film."
Films included:
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, USA 1933)
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, Germany 1935)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, USA 1962)
Brassed Off (Mark Herman, UK 1996)
Matewan (John Sayles, USA 1987)
Michael Collins (Neil Jordan, USA 1996)
plus extracts.