Primary movie list (I)

The Birth of a Nation (1915) V for Vendetta, The Shawshank redemption (1994), Danton, (1983) France, Battleship Potemkin (1921) , Modern Time, Life is beautiful (1997), Z (1969), Misere au Borinage (1933) , Rip: A Remix Manifesto, Frida(2002), One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975), Triumph des willens (1935) , Bloody Sunday, White ribbon(2009), Lenin:The train (1988) , Citizen Kane (1941), Lives of Others In the time of butterflies(2001),Good bye Lenin (2003) , Salt of the Earth (1953), Hunger, The party (1968), Water (2005), On the Bowery (1956), Wag the Dog, It s a wonderful life(1946), sag koshi (2001), Dr Strangelove (1964) ,Brazil, Malena(2000), Waltz with Bashir (2008), La Chinoise (1967), Warum lauft Herr R. Amok(1970), Our music(2004), L aggettivo donna(1971), Far from heaven(2002), Macbeth (1971) ,Women & Politics: Julia 1977, Guess who s coming to dinner(1967), Nashville (1975),Pluralism: Mr. Smith Goes to Washingtn 1939, When Father Was Away on Business(1985), Underground (1995) , Nature: Voyage To The Edge Of The World 1976, Welcome(2009), Ratiziti Lihiyot ,

Primary movie list (II)

Grapes of Wrath 1940, Amen(2002), Persepolis(2007) ,Information: Network 1976, Head-on (2004), The World Without US (2008) , Taboos: La Grande Bouffe 1973, 3 brothers(1981), In the loop (2009) , Addiction: More 1998,A Passage to India (1984) , Fight Club, Dead poet s society (1989), Dogville (2003), Trauma: The Birds 1963, House of Spirits (1993), Exile: Moonlighting 1982, Cast Away, Identity: The 25th Hour 2002, Silence of the Lambs, Modernity: The Leopard 1963, Notre Musique, Technology and Science: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Philadelphia, Populism: The Best man 1964, Spirited away, Religion: Shoes of the Fisherman 1968, The Earth will Tremble, Contemporary Art: Lust for Life 1956, La Dolce Vita Mosquito Coast, the hole , bashu, They shoot horses don't they?, In the year of Pig( 1968) Blade runner, A prophet(2009), Teorema (1968) , Saving Private Ryan, Waltz with Bashir(2008), Gibor( 2004) , Property: Citizen kane, It all starts today (1999), The last Communist(2006) , Money: Wall Street 1987, Missing(1982), The Yacoubian Building (2006)

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Objectives
Political Cinema as a raw idea Political cinema reminds us of political documentary or history of politics Our objective: to introduce political cinema as an influential to or a way to provide an original view to illustrate the reality Political movies that changed the world / or the definition of art

A content-wise categorizing
Main categories Movies Lives of others Global health Modernity Human/ social rights/ minority rights Politically forced disasters spying Political movements/ events Preunification of Germany

The hole Fight club The Yacobian building One flow over the cuckoo's nest Hunger V for vendetta

Pandemic diseases

humanism

Solidarity/ alienation gender hierarchy capitalism Corruption/ criticism Individualism Hunger strike censorship activism leftism apocalypse revolution leftism

AIDS

freedom

Main categories Movies Notre musique Spirited away Z Underground One flow over the cuckoo's nest Battleship potemkin Waltz with Bachir Danton

War

Nationalism

Human/ social rights

Politically forced disasters

Political movements/ events

Palestine National identity assassination Yugoslavia National leaders Individualism nationalism unions trauma Lebanon revolution terrorism Trauma/ violence censorship activism

The white ribbon Fascism

Directors
15 new movies from 13 award winning directors we haven t watched any movies from.

Taiwan Poland Egypt France Germany Greece Ireland Japan Russia U.S

IMDB Rating
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. One flew over cuckoo s nest Spirited away Lives of others V for Vendetta Z Battleship Potemkin Underground Waltz with Bashir Fight Club White Ribbon Hunger Danton The Hole The Yacoubian Building Notre Musique 8.9 8.6 8.5 8.2 8.1 8.1 8.1 8 8 7.8 7.6 7.5 7.5 7.3 6.9

Creativity and originality in conveying a political message

Christian Bu, Der Spiegel: "Director Michael Haneke forces us to learn how to see again".

The White Ribbon

Influential political movies

V for Vendetta as a modern symbol of anarchy and revolution

23 May 2009: protesting over the issue of British MPs expenses

January 2008: Anonymous (an internet-based group) against the Church of Scientology.

References
V for Vendetta Book: V for vendetta as cultural pastiche : a critical study of the graphic novel and film, James Keller, 2008 - Book: V for vendetta, Alan Moore, 2005 Danton - Dialogism in the political films of Andrzej Wajda, Man of Marble, man of Iron and Danton, Janina Falsowska, phd Thesis, Mc Gill University, 1993 - Andrzej wajda s Reign of Terror: Danton Polish Ambiance, Mieczyslaw Szporer, Film Quarterly, Vol 37, No 2 White Ribbon -Pre-war trauma: Haneke s The White Ribbon, Film Quarterly63, 2010 -Unsentimental education: An interview with M. Haneke, Cineast, 2009 -Rural terrorisme, American Cinematographer, 2010 Battleship Potemkin - Godard and Eisenstein notions of intellectual cinema, A Review of Contemporary Media, 1975, 2004 - Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin: a shot-by-shot presentation, David Mayer Underground - Retrieving Emir Kusturica s Underground as a critique of ethnic nationalism, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media Jump Cut, No. 51, spring 2009 -

One flew over cuckoo s nest It is truth even if it didn t happen: Ken Kesey s One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, Safer Elaine B, Film Quarterly, Spring1977,5,2 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: One Reason for a Happy Adaption, Mc Creadie, Maesha, Literature Film Quarterly, Spring 1977 The Disparity of Point of View in One Flew over the Cuckoo s Nest, Zubizarreta, John, 1994,2, Hunger - Eye witness memorialising humanity in Steve McQueen s Hunger, Eugene McNamee, Thesis, 2009 -Cities under Watch: Urban Northern Ireland in Film, Matthew Brown, Volume 45:1&2, Earrach/Samhradh, 2010 Lives of others - La vie des autres: Un hommage l art, Sophie Bastien, 2010 - Eyes without a face, Sight and sound17, 2007 Waltz with Bashir -Graphic novels or novel graphics? The evolution of iconoclasic genre, The Comparatis35, 2011 - Narratives in pencil: Using graphic novels to teach Israeli-Palestinian relations, International studies perspective 11, 2010 -Waltz with Bashir, Cineast, 2009 -War fantasies: Memory, trauma and ethics in Ari Folman s Waltz with Bashir, Journal of modern Jewish studies9, 2010 -A History of violence, Film comment 44, 2008

The Yacoubian Building The Path of Jihad in the Yacoubian Building, Journal of Religion and Film, Michel Gardaz, Vol. 13, No. 1

Fight Club - What was Fight Club? Theses on the value worlds of trash capitalism, George Henderson, Theses University of Minnesota, 2011 - Book: Sociology through the projector , Blent Diken, 2007 The hole - Gender hierarchy and environmental crisis in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole, Film critics 33, 2008 Spirited away - The two Japans of "Spirited Away , International journal of comic arts 12, 2010 Notre Musique -Before our eyes: Les mots, non les choses, Jean-Luc Godard s ici et ailleurs (197074) and Notre musique (2004), Irmgard Emmelhainz, PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2009 - Bridging Fiction and Documentary in Godard's Notre Musique, Berkeley undergraduate journal 21, 2008