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...packed audience took a critical look at Disney films last night in Boylston Hall, examining the popular childhood movies and their portrayals of race, gender, and class. The event, “Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power,” involved a screening of the documentary of that same name followed by a discussion led by Michael Baran, who teaches Expos 20: “Race in the Americas.” The event was the brainchild of Jessica M. Ch’ng ’12, who saw the documentary in Baran?...
...can’t say, ‘We shouldn’t do this because of some kind of purity.’ We’re making this always as best as it can be seen by new audiences.”Later that night, the HFA screened Friedkin’s first major film, “The People vs. Paul Crump,” a documentary of a death-row inmate convicted of a murder he likely didn’t commit. The film prompted the governor of Illinois to send Friedkin a thank-you letter...
...regular cast that consists of her extended family—a recognizable bunch from the director’s other work—and a novel cast of young and attractive characters whose lives are facing hardship. In this latter plotline, Joshua (Derek Luke, “Friday Night Lights”), an assistant district attorney, sees his life disrupted when Candy, a childhood friend (Keshia Knight Pulliam from “The Cosby Show”), is charged with prostitution. But unlike former Madea movies, “Madea Goes to Jail” fails to skillfully weave these...
...never supposed to substitute for a teacher. But it does purposefully empower the children. People don’t realize there’s an insatiable intellectual hunger in many of these areas. My parents, who grew up in Africa, tell stories of reading their one book all night until the candle wax melted into nothing. You can take a laptop anywhere...
...weather was nippy outside last Saturday night, but a large crowd had weathered the cold to gather inside of Tommy Doyle’s for the MIT portion of Rockus, a musical battle royale organized by Veritas Records and sponsored by Rolling Stone. Veritas Records President Caitlin V. Crump ’10 is convinced that it will produce the next big band.MIT, Tufts, Emerson, Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and the Berklee College of Music each have its own night of competition in which one winner from each college emerges. It is these winners who collectively...