THE PUBLIC INTEREST. MEDIA AND PUBLIC OPINION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (USA-EU)
James B. Conant Winter 2008 Film Series
Place: Real Colegio Complutense at
Time:
Date: Four Wednesdays
February 20: Caminantes (Walkers) 2001.
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa. This documentary begins in early 2001 as Mexican Zapatistas began a march to
A documentary covering the 2004 election, and particularly focusing on the swing state Ohio, is probably something close to essential viewing for those who want to see the inner-workings of election-year politics on both sides and to see what makes both sides work and not work, sometimes at the same time or not at all.
March 5: An Unreasonable Man 2007.
Directors: Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan.
Unreasonable Man" traces the life and career of Ralph Nader, one of the most unique, important, and controversial political figures of the past half century.
March 12: Invisibles 2007.
Directors: Isabel Coixet, Fernando Léon de Aranoa, Mariano Barroso, Javier Corcuera, Wim Wenders. A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Special Event.
Book Presentation & Reading.
Rose Moss, In Court
Thursday, December 13 at
FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, IN ENGLISH.
How magisterially she goes to work. She manages to be lively, too--plastic, moving, and a virtuoso." Andre Brink author of A Dry White Season
Location: RCC Conference Room 26
Rose Moss is the author of two-novels, the Family Reunion and the Terrorist. Among her more than forty short stories, one won a Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another won a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Her stories have also been cited in Best American Short Stories, nominated for Pushcart prizes, and widely anthologized. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times,
Wednesday, July 18 & Thursday, July 19 (9.00-13.00) Preliminary Meeting. First J. B. Conant Conference Media and Public Interest,
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