I show Hearts and Minds in class all the time. . .few students relate to it. "It's not relevant to me," is a common response.
I do my best to show the parallels between current imperial destructions and Vietnam. . .still little pulse. . .now that Obama has "saved" them. It's like throwing diamonds into a cave. But still I plug on, in this, the United States of Amnesia. . .where self censorship reigns. . . Brian -----Original Message----- From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]> To: PEN-L list <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 3:56 pm Subject: [Pen-l] Hearts and Minds; FTA Great news. Two of the outstanding documentaries of the Vietnam War era are now available, on in the theaters and the other on DVD. “Hearts and Minds” opens at the Cinema Village today and is not only the finest documentary of the period, but arguably the finest political documentary ever made. You can also order “FTA” from Netflix, a movie that both documents Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s legendary challenge to Bob Hope’s UFO shows and the amazing response of active-duty GI’s who by 1971 were sick and tired of Hope’s cheesy, warmongering “entertainment”, and more importantly the war it cheered on. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/hearts-and-minds-fta/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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