FILM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Arab Spring, Pentagon, Public Sphere
12 Jan 2016
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Homework/seminars: writing workshop in seminar, homework for this weekend/submit responses on november 19th: Eric hobsbawm: age of extremes the short twentieth century (1914-1991) Claims that wwi (1914) marked beginning of changes in the world that when we think about 20th c. this is the big marker. The fall of the berlin wall & the end of the cold war that brought the century to a close. If we think about this century in these terms, the 21 century began on. 9/11 when planes crashed & these events shaped politics & cultural & public discourse around the world ever since. 30-minute collection of excerpts from tv news reports from this event. Study notes about these elements for tutorial discussion. Globalization: we would define in terms of transnational corporations, free, movement of people through things like refugees, refugee crisis trade, worldwide shipping, big factories in china, etc. & other forms of mobility that are not necessarily positive.
