DARWIN LIVE! (a one-man show) REEL this Week
When & Where
Tuesday, September 29
1 – 2:30 p.m.
West Loop Auditorium – West Loop Campus
5601 West Loop South - Houston, Texas
Exit Fournace from 610 going south and make the U-turn to the feeder.
The West Loop Campus is just before your reach Home Depot.
“Charles Darwin-Live!”
by Robert Dennison – a one-man show
A lecture delivered by Charles Darwin about his life, studies and science. This is the year of his 200th birthday.
Come celebrate with us!
Robert Dennison, Advanced Placement (AP) Science Lead Teacher for HISD, has been bringing great scientists of the past to life for his students since 1984.
Sponsored by:
HCC Northwest College Anthropology, Office of Instructional Initiatives -
Houston Community College, the REEL, & Darwin2009-Houston
The REEL is FREE & OPEN TO ALL HCC STUDENTS, FACULTY & FRIENDS.
http://www.darwin2009houston.org/links.cfm
http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/anthnote/ANFall2008final.pdf
Cultural Journeys with French Heritage Cinema
Humor, Culture, and Landscapes of Southern France
September 23rd, Wednesday
12:30 p.m.
Film
Jean de Florette
Introduction/ Discussion with Professor Ana Hnat
Jean de Florette is a 1986 French historical drama based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, the French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. The film is part of a wider trend from the 1980s of so-called ‘heritage cinema’ – period pieces and costume dramas that celebrate the history, culture and landscape of France. This story takes place in rural Provence (southern France) shortly after World War I when two greedy and devious local farmers scheme to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property. They are so incomprehensibly mean it’s comical. The story, scenery, and acting are superb. The movie stars three of France’s most prominent actors – Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, and Yves Montand in one of his last roles. A wonderful performance, a jewel of a viewing experience. “Guy de Maupassant would have loved this!”
In French with English Subtitles. (121 minutes)
Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships
September 16th Wednesday
DOUBLE-FEATURE Film at 11 a.m. Talk at 12:45 p.m.
BE ADVISED: Film and Talk are for MATURE AUDIENCES!
Explicit sex, language, and violence.
11: 00 a.m. Film
Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships (56 minutes) 2008.
Introduction/ Discussion by Dr. Robert Jensen, Professor University of Texas School of Journalism
This Media Education Project film explores how pornographic messages help shape our gender and sexual identities and affect our relationships. The film moves beyond the liberal-versus-conservative debates so common in the culture to paint a myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility have become intertwined in the most intimate areas of our lives.
Pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries. There are now an estimated 420 million pages of pornography online, and, each year, 13,000 porn videos are released and over 900 million videos rented. While assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of popular culture, pornography’s content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist, racist, and violent.
Cited from Film Study Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/235/studyguide_235.pdf
12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Talk
“Pornography and the End of Masculinity” with Professor Robert Jensen
Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, has journeyed into uncomfortable domains to question and gauge “what it means to be human” – beyond gender, beyond race, beyond war. In this talk, Jensen will discuss the reach and impact of pornography in US society and develop a critique of its relationship to violence and women, and what it means to be a “real man” according to the media menu the “connected” generation consumes. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html
(Dr. Jensen’s several books will be available at program.)