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International Lens Film: Valentino’s Ghost

Presented by Douglas Knight, Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies. USA (2013) Dir. Michael Singh. Singh makes a powerful case about the prevalence of stereotyping Arabs and Muslims in films, the media, and elsewhere. Much of the research for the film was undertaken at Vanderbilt’s Television News Archives. The director will…

Posted by on March 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: My So-Called Enemy

Presented by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center USA (2010) Dir. Lisa Gossels. In 2002, six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls participated in a U.S.-based program where they came to know their “enemies” as human beings. The coming of age story documents how they reconcile their transformative experience with the realities of life in the Middle…

Posted by on March 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: As I Lay Dying

Presented by Michael Kreyling, Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Chair of English, Professor of English, and Professor of American Studies. USA (2013) Dir. James Franco. What would compel a Hollywood “heartthrob” to adapt for the screen and direct William Faulkner’s seminal novel, the narrative of which comprises the streams of consciousness of multiple characters? Are Franco’s efforts…

Posted by on February 27, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: The Muslims Are Coming!

Presented by Anand Taneja, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Film Studies. USA (2011) Dir. Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah. One might think that Islamaphobia would hardly be a laughing matter, but the filmmakers extract humor from the experience of being Muslim in Islamaphobic America. English. 81 mins. Blu-ray. Co-sponsored by The Muslim Student Association….

Posted by on February 27, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: The Color Wheel

Presented by Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, Director of Film Studies; and Thomas C. McGrath, A&S 2016 USA (2011) Dir. Alex Ross Perry. Perry’s second film is a dark comedy that earns the designation with its sarcastic and shallow siblings on a journey through an even more hostile world. The film…

Posted by on February 20, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Wagner & Me

Presented by Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Film Studies UK, Switzerland, Russia, Germany (2010) Dir. Patrick McGrady. British performer Stephen Fry is a lifelong admirer of the music of Richard Wagner. He is also Jewish. Fry examines his fascination with Wagner, and confronts Wagner’s troubled legacy, whose music may be thought…

Posted by on February 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Brother Outsider

Presented by Frank Dobson, Director, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center; and Petey Peterson, Program Coordinator, Office of LGBTQI Life USA (2002) Dir. Nancy D. Kates. Brother Outsider relies on archival film footage and interviews to offer an incisive portrait of political activist Bayard Rustin. Although his name lacks the familiarity of other major Civil…

Posted by on February 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: El Barrio Tours

Presented by William Luis, Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, Director of Latino and Latina Studies Program; and Lorraine Lopez, Associate Professor of English USA (2013) Dir. Andrew Padilla. An in depth look at the phenomena of gentrification as seen through the change in the largest Puerto Rican neighborhood in the 50 states: East Harlem……

Posted by on February 6, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Pork Chop Hill

Presented by Frank E. Dobson Jr., Director, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center USA (1959) Dir. Lewis Milestone. A Korean War war film based upon the book by military historian Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, an eyewitness, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Division,…

Posted by on February 6, 2014 in Activities Everyone

J-1 Employment Workshop

Learn about the different employment options open to J-1 Students: On-campus employment, Academic Training. Location: Student Life Center, Lower Level Meeting Room 3.

Posted by on February 5, 2014 in Activities FJ

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