Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators displayed a more serious insensitivity by assuming that the audience was not sophisticated enough to understand the movie in its proper context. A few cinema buffs conceivably could have been engrossed in the technical innovations, but, without doubt, leaflets, picketing, or a publicized boycott would have jarred even the most myopic D.W. Griffith fans, and given the screening a political meaning...
...consequent right of white ones to teach them their place--that remain influential today. A showing of such a movie is an appropriate time for mobilizing against these ideas and advocating ideas opposed to them. The potential of Saturday night's action needs to be judged in this context--not in an artificial isolation permitting it to be lumped with every action that has ever set an explicit limit on free expression...
...Educational Context...
...agreed to go back to the organization with the proposition to show it in a more educational context, so that the film could be viewed discriminately," Felipe M. Noguera '76, one of the three representatives, said last night...
Chris S. Richardson '75, a member of the Brigade, spoke to the audience of what he termed the need to rebuild the student movement of the '60s in a political context centered around the struggles of the oppressed people of the world...