Honors Cinema

These films will run at 1 pm in the Honors Room 1315D Conference Room.

Viewing four films will earn one Honors engagement point. Viewing eight films will earn two Honors engagement points.

The activity will consist of one film per week with a one hour discussion afterward. Students must participate in both the screening and the discussion to earn credit towards the engagement point.

Seating will be restricted to 12 participants. Food and drink will not be allowed during the activity.



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Honors Conference Room 1315D, Inside 1330 Mason hall

(United States; 1969; Haskell Wexler) is one of the most fascinating mixtures of fictional and factual filmmaking ever committed to celluloid. Initially shot as a feature film by cinematographer-director Wexler as an observation on Marshall McLuhan’s famed diction about 20th century media theory that “the medium is the message,” the film morphed into inadvertent documentary when his cast and crew were inadvertently caught up in the famed Chicago student riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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