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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-07-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-07-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-06-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Six Month Pass through November 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES!\nWe are now offering a six month pass for the prices of the previous 4 month passes. If you are paying for yourself and any additional person\, you are now able to have two people attend all events\, classes or film showings (post-pandemic) that The MEP offers. THIS IS REALLY A MORE THAN 6-MIONTH PASS\, ESPECIALLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE THE END OF MAY! \nThere are a number of significant series that are being offered between now and October 31\, 2022 including the the new series on precariousness and a second  Gramsci course which considers the 3-volume version of the Prison Notebooks that will begin in late January\,  a new Socialist Register series on Class\, Party\, Revolution and Capitalism\, Technology\, Labor. The next Grundrisse group begins April 23.  The new combined 2 volumes of Invention of the White Race will be a new class which you can still join this February. On May 7 Marcello Musto will be joined with John Bellamy Foster for a discussion on The Marx Revival: Ecology and Communism. The next in the annual Socialist Register series occurs will feature Sam Gindin\, Adolph Reed Jr.\, Toure Reed\,James Schneider\, Hilary Wainwrite on Polarization and Socialism. There are a wide range of other events and classes being finalized and will be seen soon on this site\, social media and elsewhere.. \nAll classes that are ongoing beyond the six months\, if enrolled in during this period\, are covered with this 6 month pass. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multi-month-pass-to-june-30-2021/2022-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Agribusiness,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Dance,Ecosocialism,Film Screenings,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass Offering Through September 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $60 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and September 30\, 2022. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through September 30\, 2022\, giving an extra month if you purchase during this January. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-4-month-pass-offering-through-may-31/2022-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,China,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Gender,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Diary of a Digital Plague Year with Dennis Broe
DESCRIPTION:Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture\, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services with author Dennis Broe \nDENNIS BROE\, author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure\, will be talking about his new book Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture\, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services. The book offers a blow-by-blow account of the ongoing confinement\, charting the changes in our lives exacerbated by the coronavirus. Corona culture is a digital culture extraordinaire for some\, while for others it has increased panic and terror about being at work. \nThe privileged site for this exploration is serial TV and its new mode of delivery\, the increased power of the streaming services as they attempt to dominate and even throttle global media production in a neoliberal\, privatized attack on publicly financed film and television. The book charts this rise in short bursts that in toto illuminate these rapidly evolving changes in all our lives\, as Adorno’s Minima Moralia meets TV Guide.  \n The talk will touch on the year’s highs and lows including “John Brown’s Maid\,” on the travesty that was The Good Lord Bird; “Coming Undone: The Limits of MeToo” and Nicole Kidman’s power walks in The Undoing; and “Battling ’50s Apartheid One Monster at aTime” in the majestic Lovecraft Country. The year is also recounted in essays on film\, art\, books and Euro- and American Cultural Politics\, all the while asking how to turn this new phase of Digital Disaster Capitalism into a more liberatory (Virtual) Road Ahead. \nHere’s what the critics are saying: \n“With his latest masterwork\, Dennis Broe confirms what some of us already knew: when it comes to parsing and interrogating popular culture\, he has no peer.” —Gerald Horne\, author\, Paul Robeson:  The Artist as Revolutionary \n“Broe’s mastery of history\, economics\, and media let him provide details and insights that few other writers can match. These short\, readable essays offer convincing explanations of the moment in which we live.” —Julia Lesage\, Co-founder and editor of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media \n“Dennis Broe is one of the most acute critics working today. He has an astounding capacity to reach beyond a specific medium to give us wide-ranging yet deep social\, cultural\, and economic contexts. A triumph” —Toby Miller\, author of A Covid Charter\, a Better World \n “Broe’s blisteringly inciteful commentary isn’t just important\, it’s brave.” —From the Foreward by Redacted Tonight’s Lee Camp \nDENNIS BROE is the author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure and Maverick or How The West Was Lost. His television criticism can be found at Bro on The Global Television Beat. His radio commentary can be heard on his show Breaking Glass onArt District Radio in Paris and on Arts Express on the Pacifica Network in the U.S. He is the author of two novels: Left of Eden\, about the Hollywood blacklist and A Hello to Arms\, about the postwar buildup of the weapons industry. He is currently teaching in the Masters’ Program at the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme in Paris\, has taught at The Sorbonne\, and was a full professor and director of the Media Arts Graduate Program at Long Island University in New York \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/diary-of-a-digital-plague-year-with-dennis-broe/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Film and television,Film Screenings,Globalization,Media Criticism,Pandemics and Capital,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210423T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210423T213000
DTSTAMP:20210423T020522Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T020522Z
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SUMMARY:The Hour of the Furnaces: A film screening with discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Hour of the Furnaces\nPart 1: Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism and Violence in Argentina\, 1968\, 84 minutes\nDir. Grupo Cine Liberación\nSpanish with English subtitles\nIn 1968\, Grupo Cine Liberación released their powerful documentary and visual essay\, The Hour of the Furnaces. This three-part film analyzes the severe neocolonial situation of 1960s Argentina\, radical wings of Peronism\, and the role of violence in the national liberation process. Part 1\, Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism focuses on the everyday violence of the Argentine\, employing a Marxist analysis between quotes from Martí\, Fanon\, Césaire\, Che\, Mariátegui\, and other revolutionary figures. The usage of avant-garde and mainstream techniques was meant to attack the passivity of the spectator and incite political action. The Hour of the Furnaces remains an essential film of militant cinema. \nThis discussion will go over the Third Cinema movement in Argentina\, the making of Grupo Cine Liberación’s The Hour of the Furnaces\, and it’s international influence. We will watch and analyze chapters from Part 1 and discuss how it relates to the greater context of (neo)colonialism in the Global South. \nGrupo Cine Liberación clandestinely filmed The Hour of the Furnaces in fear of repression by Juan Carlos Onganía’s dictatorship. Because of the subversive nature of the film\, attending the film became an act of resistance and was met with violent confrontation by the military. Members of the group\, filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino later wrote their manifesto\, Towards a Third Cinema\, reflecting on the filmmaking process under the political restraints\, which would later become the theoretical framework for the Third Cinema film movement.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hour-of-the-furnaces-a-film-screening-with-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Film Screenings,Revolutions Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210321T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210321T160000
DTSTAMP:20210117T021053Z
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SUMMARY:Working Class Cinema in the Age of Digital Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with\nMassimiliano (Mao) Mollona\nWhy does the story of cinema begin with the end of work? Is it because\, as has been suggested\, it is impossible to represent work from the perspective of labor but only from the point of view of capital\, because the revolutionary horizon of the working class coincides with the end of work? After all\, the early revolutionary art avant-garde had an ambiguous relationship with capitalism: it provided both a critique of commodification while also reproducing the commodity form. Even the cinema of Eisenstein\, which so subverted the bourgeois sense of space\, time\, and personhood\, at the same time standardized and commodified working-class reality with techniques of framing and editing that molded images on the commodity form. \nSuch dialectics between art and the commodity form continue to be played out in today’s digital capitalism\, as exemplified by so-called ‘debt-artists’\, like the hackers collective Robin Hood\, who appropriate the techniques and modes of sociality of financial capitalism to generate spaces of reciprocity and cooperation with the aim of disrupting their commodity logic\, but who in fact end up reproducing it. The tension between critique and commodification is no less in play as the digital medium erases the specificity of cinema\, the relation between its material bases and its poetics\, opening up as it does to other relations – intertextual\, lateral\, and cross-media – that recall the synchronic aesthetics of the avant-garde. As well as disrupting the materiality of the film medium\, digital film disrupts the temporality of classical cinema\, suspended in-between movement and stillness and experienced in the expanded duration of the time-image. \nMASSIMILIANO (Mao) MOLLONA is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. One of Mao’s main research interests is to look at the role of art institutions and cultural organizations in relation to the bio-politics and political economy of late capitalism. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for an inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute please write to info@marxedproject.org to be given the URL for the zoom code for admission to this or other events. \nThis essay is available from The MEP in the Socialist Register 2021 book that is for sale in our bookstore. All book prices include shipping (US and Puerto Rico only). \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/working-class-cinema-in-the-age-of-digital-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Intro to Marxism,Literary Studies,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass:
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and May 31\, 2021. We are hosting many new series including a new literature class\, MAD Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War  beginning on January 14\, a continuation of Capital\, Volume 1 class\, a repeat of the popular Blood and Money\, Considerations on Bolshevism before Stalinism\, a reading and discussion group of Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\, a multi-session series covering the Socialist Register 2021 annual\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\, and  the 4 new events related to the Pluto Press Fireworks Series which begins on January 23 with Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar on Pandemic Solidarity\, the first book to be presented. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through May 21. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension. You can also attend the new series sponsored by Palsgrave on Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms along with Rowan and Littlefield’s new Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series of events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/until-mid-winter-pass-now-through-january-31-2021/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:MEP Open House: Eve of New Year's Eve with The Red Microphone and more
DESCRIPTION:Goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021 \nThe MEP will host a 3 hour open house via zoom. There will be 2 sets of music by The Red Microphone \nAt least 2 sets (one at 6:30 the other at 8:00) \nEssential Music provided by The Red Microphone \nThe Red Microphone’s music is based in improvisation and incorporates melodies of Hanns Eisler\, Charles Mingus and originals as well as revolutionary anthem “L’Internationale” infused with poetry repertoire including Pietaro’s original verse as well as that of masters Langston Hughes\, Amiri and Amina Baraka\, John Reed\, Kenneth Fearing\, Woody Guthrie\, Walter Lowenfels as well as Brecht and others. The quartet also came together in an expanded form as the septet Whispers to record And I Became of the Dark\, to be released on ESP-Disk in 2021. The quartet is: John Pietaro\, writer\, spoken word artist\, percussionist and cultural organizer. Rocco John Iacovone\, saxophonist\, composer\, and educator. Ras Moshe Burnett\, saxophonist\, flutist and musical adventurer\, has been a perennial of NYC’s free jazz circle since the 1980s. He leads ensembles under the Music Now! banner. Laurie Towers\, electric bassist\, publicist\, business owner and healthcare professional hosts andproduces feminist podcast She’s Raising the Bar. Towers is currently writing Xx-centric Behavior: Women Defying Stereotypical Gravity. LaurieTowers.net \nRe-Inventing Love: Brief Segments\nA work is inspired by the writing of philosopher Alain Badiou.\nDance Selections Choreographed by Marija Krtolica in collaboration with the performers\npsychoanalyst Julie Fotheringham\ndancer\, artist and chef Michael Mangieri\n“Re-Inventing Love” looks at  the relationships during the time of a socio-economic crisis. The focus is on how the desire for connection appears within alienated urban landscapes. The work comments on the contemporary dating scene with reference to the philosophical concept of love\, and depictions of love scenes in the arts. \nMakina will come to explain the significance of soupe jamou in the centuries of resistance in Haiti \nMiryam Yatoco will read from Quecha poems she has translated into English \nwith much more and all of you…
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mep-open-house-eve-of-new-years-eve-with-the-red-microphone-and-more/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Multi-Month Pass: Now through Dec 31\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. \nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $150\, $200\, or $250 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between February 1 and May 31\, 2021. The curriculum has not been decided as of yet but this special price will apply for all that takes place from during the stated four-month period. Anyone can purchase this option and can attend all events until May 31\, even if purchased during December\, 2020 or January\, 2021. \nThe way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good for all events and classes that take place between now and May 31\, 2021. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension/. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-month-pass-january-21-through-may-20-2019-2020-08-29/2020-10-31/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201001T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201001T210000
DTSTAMP:20200814T012608Z
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SUMMARY:Lit and Film: Noir for the Summer of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:8 sessions\nvia teleconference on Zoom • participation code with registration\nSliding scale admission for teleconference \nContinuing in the MEP LITERATURE GROUP summer tradition\, we will once again delve into Noir genres– but with a twist! Starting August 6\, we will read four books and watch the movies that are based on them. Please join us for four books with the four movies that resulted from them. \nBOOK 1 Odd Man Out /F. L. Green \nF.L. (Laurie) Green’s novel was published in 1945. It followed upon wartime action by the IRA in Belfast\, in consequence of which Northern Ireland undertook its first and only execution of an IRA member\, 19-year old Tom Williams. In the novel\, an IRA plot goes horribly wrong when its leader\, Johnny Murtah\, kills an innocent man\, and he is gravely wounded. Odd Man Out is Green’s most significant novel. \nMOVIE 1 Odd Man Out /Carol Reed • AUGUST 20\nTakes place largely over the course of one tense night\, Reed’s psychological noir\, set in Belfast\, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con who leads a botched robbery. Injured and hunted by the police\, he seeks refuge throughout the city\, while the woman he loves searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create images of stunning depth for this fierce\, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself. \nBOOK 2 Clean Break /Lionel White • AUGUST 27\n“… none of them are professional crooks. They all have jobs\, they all live seemingly decent\, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them.” In the opening chapter\, Lionel White sets the stage for the main protagonists of the story: Marvin Unger\, court reporter; George Peatty\, a racetrack cashier and his bored wife\, Sherry; Randy Kennan\, a cop distracted by huge gambling debts; Mike O’Reilly\, a track barman\, regularly bets and loses half his earnings; and Johnny Clay\, just out of jail\, and who has come up with the plan to steal the earnings fromthe Canarsie Stakes. Creating diversions becomes necessary\, including knocking off the favourite in the race (animals lovers beware…). \nMOVIE 2 The Killing /Stanley Kubrick • SEPTEMBER 3\nStanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest\, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative\, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson\, and a phenomenal cast of character actors\, including Sterling Hayden\, Coleen Gray\, Timothy Carey\, Elisha Cook Jr.\, and Marie Windsor\, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony\, it’s Kubrick to the core. \nBOOK 3 Down There /David Goodis • SEPTEMBER 10\nOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall—now he does honky-tonk in a Philly drunk-dive. But then two people walk into Eddie’s life—the first promising Eddie a future\, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Down There (bookretitled after film to Shoot the Piano Player) is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty. \nMOVIE 3 Shoot The Piano Player /François Truffaut • SEPTEMBER 17\nFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this\, his most playful film. Part thriller\, part comedy\, part tragedy\, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour\, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags\, guns\, clowns\, and thugs\, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague. \nBOOK 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /George V. Higgins • SEPTEMBER 24\nElmore Leonard said that The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the best crime novel ever written\, though Higgins hated being classified as a crime writer. According to Leonard\, “He saw himself as the Charles Dickens of crime in Boston instead of a crime writer. He just understood the human condition and he understood it most vividly in the language and actions among low lives.” \nMOVIE 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /Peter Yates • OCTOBER 1\nIn one of the best performances of his legendary career\, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters\, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark\, unforgiving daylight. \nWe will attempt to watch together. Those who watch the film on their own are of course welcome to join in the discussions following the films as they are presented.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lit-and-film-noir-for-the-summer-of-covid-19/2020-10-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200924T210000
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SUMMARY:Lit and Film: Noir for the Summer of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:8 sessions\nvia teleconference on Zoom • participation code with registration\nSliding scale admission for teleconference \nContinuing in the MEP LITERATURE GROUP summer tradition\, we will once again delve into Noir genres– but with a twist! Starting August 6\, we will read four books and watch the movies that are based on them. Please join us for four books with the four movies that resulted from them. \nBOOK 1 Odd Man Out /F. L. Green \nF.L. (Laurie) Green’s novel was published in 1945. It followed upon wartime action by the IRA in Belfast\, in consequence of which Northern Ireland undertook its first and only execution of an IRA member\, 19-year old Tom Williams. In the novel\, an IRA plot goes horribly wrong when its leader\, Johnny Murtah\, kills an innocent man\, and he is gravely wounded. Odd Man Out is Green’s most significant novel. \nMOVIE 1 Odd Man Out /Carol Reed • AUGUST 20\nTakes place largely over the course of one tense night\, Reed’s psychological noir\, set in Belfast\, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con who leads a botched robbery. Injured and hunted by the police\, he seeks refuge throughout the city\, while the woman he loves searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create images of stunning depth for this fierce\, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself. \nBOOK 2 Clean Break /Lionel White • AUGUST 27\n“… none of them are professional crooks. They all have jobs\, they all live seemingly decent\, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them.” In the opening chapter\, Lionel White sets the stage for the main protagonists of the story: Marvin Unger\, court reporter; George Peatty\, a racetrack cashier and his bored wife\, Sherry; Randy Kennan\, a cop distracted by huge gambling debts; Mike O’Reilly\, a track barman\, regularly bets and loses half his earnings; and Johnny Clay\, just out of jail\, and who has come up with the plan to steal the earnings fromthe Canarsie Stakes. Creating diversions becomes necessary\, including knocking off the favourite in the race (animals lovers beware…). \nMOVIE 2 The Killing /Stanley Kubrick • SEPTEMBER 3\nStanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest\, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative\, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson\, and a phenomenal cast of character actors\, including Sterling Hayden\, Coleen Gray\, Timothy Carey\, Elisha Cook Jr.\, and Marie Windsor\, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony\, it’s Kubrick to the core. \nBOOK 3 Down There /David Goodis • SEPTEMBER 10\nOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall—now he does honky-tonk in a Philly drunk-dive. But then two people walk into Eddie’s life—the first promising Eddie a future\, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Down There (bookretitled after film to Shoot the Piano Player) is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty. \nMOVIE 3 Shoot The Piano Player /François Truffaut • SEPTEMBER 17\nFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this\, his most playful film. Part thriller\, part comedy\, part tragedy\, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour\, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags\, guns\, clowns\, and thugs\, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague. \nBOOK 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /George V. Higgins • SEPTEMBER 24\nElmore Leonard said that The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the best crime novel ever written\, though Higgins hated being classified as a crime writer. According to Leonard\, “He saw himself as the Charles Dickens of crime in Boston instead of a crime writer. He just understood the human condition and he understood it most vividly in the language and actions among low lives.” \nMOVIE 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /Peter Yates • OCTOBER 1\nIn one of the best performances of his legendary career\, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters\, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark\, unforgiving daylight. \nWe will attempt to watch together. Those who watch the film on their own are of course welcome to join in the discussions following the films as they are presented.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lit-and-film-noir-for-the-summer-of-covid-19/2020-09-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Lit and Film: Noir for the Summer of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:8 sessions\nvia teleconference on Zoom • participation code with registration\nSliding scale admission for teleconference \nContinuing in the MEP LITERATURE GROUP summer tradition\, we will once again delve into Noir genres– but with a twist! Starting August 6\, we will read four books and watch the movies that are based on them. Please join us for four books with the four movies that resulted from them. \nBOOK 1 Odd Man Out /F. L. Green \nF.L. (Laurie) Green’s novel was published in 1945. It followed upon wartime action by the IRA in Belfast\, in consequence of which Northern Ireland undertook its first and only execution of an IRA member\, 19-year old Tom Williams. In the novel\, an IRA plot goes horribly wrong when its leader\, Johnny Murtah\, kills an innocent man\, and he is gravely wounded. Odd Man Out is Green’s most significant novel. \nMOVIE 1 Odd Man Out /Carol Reed • AUGUST 20\nTakes place largely over the course of one tense night\, Reed’s psychological noir\, set in Belfast\, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con who leads a botched robbery. Injured and hunted by the police\, he seeks refuge throughout the city\, while the woman he loves searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create images of stunning depth for this fierce\, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself. \nBOOK 2 Clean Break /Lionel White • AUGUST 27\n“… none of them are professional crooks. They all have jobs\, they all live seemingly decent\, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them.” In the opening chapter\, Lionel White sets the stage for the main protagonists of the story: Marvin Unger\, court reporter; George Peatty\, a racetrack cashier and his bored wife\, Sherry; Randy Kennan\, a cop distracted by huge gambling debts; Mike O’Reilly\, a track barman\, regularly bets and loses half his earnings; and Johnny Clay\, just out of jail\, and who has come up with the plan to steal the earnings fromthe Canarsie Stakes. Creating diversions becomes necessary\, including knocking off the favourite in the race (animals lovers beware…). \nMOVIE 2 The Killing /Stanley Kubrick • SEPTEMBER 3\nStanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest\, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative\, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson\, and a phenomenal cast of character actors\, including Sterling Hayden\, Coleen Gray\, Timothy Carey\, Elisha Cook Jr.\, and Marie Windsor\, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony\, it’s Kubrick to the core. \nBOOK 3 Down There /David Goodis • SEPTEMBER 10\nOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall—now he does honky-tonk in a Philly drunk-dive. But then two people walk into Eddie’s life—the first promising Eddie a future\, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Down There (bookretitled after film to Shoot the Piano Player) is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty. \nMOVIE 3 Shoot The Piano Player /François Truffaut • SEPTEMBER 17\nFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this\, his most playful film. Part thriller\, part comedy\, part tragedy\, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour\, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags\, guns\, clowns\, and thugs\, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague. \nBOOK 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /George V. Higgins • SEPTEMBER 24\nElmore Leonard said that The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the best crime novel ever written\, though Higgins hated being classified as a crime writer. According to Leonard\, “He saw himself as the Charles Dickens of crime in Boston instead of a crime writer. He just understood the human condition and he understood it most vividly in the language and actions among low lives.” \nMOVIE 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /Peter Yates • OCTOBER 1\nIn one of the best performances of his legendary career\, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters\, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark\, unforgiving daylight. \nWe will attempt to watch together. Those who watch the film on their own are of course welcome to join in the discussions following the films as they are presented.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lit-and-film-noir-for-the-summer-of-covid-19/2020-09-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Lit and Film: Noir for the Summer of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:8 sessions\nvia teleconference on Zoom • participation code with registration\nSliding scale admission for teleconference \nContinuing in the MEP LITERATURE GROUP summer tradition\, we will once again delve into Noir genres– but with a twist! Starting August 6\, we will read four books and watch the movies that are based on them. Please join us for four books with the four movies that resulted from them. \nBOOK 1 Odd Man Out /F. L. Green \nF.L. (Laurie) Green’s novel was published in 1945. It followed upon wartime action by the IRA in Belfast\, in consequence of which Northern Ireland undertook its first and only execution of an IRA member\, 19-year old Tom Williams. In the novel\, an IRA plot goes horribly wrong when its leader\, Johnny Murtah\, kills an innocent man\, and he is gravely wounded. Odd Man Out is Green’s most significant novel. \nMOVIE 1 Odd Man Out /Carol Reed • AUGUST 20\nTakes place largely over the course of one tense night\, Reed’s psychological noir\, set in Belfast\, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con who leads a botched robbery. Injured and hunted by the police\, he seeks refuge throughout the city\, while the woman he loves searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create images of stunning depth for this fierce\, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself. \nBOOK 2 Clean Break /Lionel White • AUGUST 27\n“… none of them are professional crooks. They all have jobs\, they all live seemingly decent\, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them.” In the opening chapter\, Lionel White sets the stage for the main protagonists of the story: Marvin Unger\, court reporter; George Peatty\, a racetrack cashier and his bored wife\, Sherry; Randy Kennan\, a cop distracted by huge gambling debts; Mike O’Reilly\, a track barman\, regularly bets and loses half his earnings; and Johnny Clay\, just out of jail\, and who has come up with the plan to steal the earnings fromthe Canarsie Stakes. Creating diversions becomes necessary\, including knocking off the favourite in the race (animals lovers beware…). \nMOVIE 2 The Killing /Stanley Kubrick • SEPTEMBER 3\nStanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest\, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative\, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson\, and a phenomenal cast of character actors\, including Sterling Hayden\, Coleen Gray\, Timothy Carey\, Elisha Cook Jr.\, and Marie Windsor\, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony\, it’s Kubrick to the core. \nBOOK 3 Down There /David Goodis • SEPTEMBER 10\nOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall—now he does honky-tonk in a Philly drunk-dive. But then two people walk into Eddie’s life—the first promising Eddie a future\, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Down There (bookretitled after film to Shoot the Piano Player) is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty. \nMOVIE 3 Shoot The Piano Player /François Truffaut • SEPTEMBER 17\nFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this\, his most playful film. Part thriller\, part comedy\, part tragedy\, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour\, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags\, guns\, clowns\, and thugs\, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague. \nBOOK 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /George V. Higgins • SEPTEMBER 24\nElmore Leonard said that The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the best crime novel ever written\, though Higgins hated being classified as a crime writer. According to Leonard\, “He saw himself as the Charles Dickens of crime in Boston instead of a crime writer. He just understood the human condition and he understood it most vividly in the language and actions among low lives.” \nMOVIE 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /Peter Yates • OCTOBER 1\nIn one of the best performances of his legendary career\, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters\, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark\, unforgiving daylight. \nWe will attempt to watch together. Those who watch the film on their own are of course welcome to join in the discussions following the films as they are presented.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lit-and-film-noir-for-the-summer-of-covid-19/2020-09-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Perry Mason and the Case of the Careless Remake
DESCRIPTION:A special presentation with Dennis Broe\nPresented by The Marxist Education Project with Institute for the Radical Imagination \nVia Zoom \nIt’s the third most popular book series of all time\, a show that ran in some form for over 35 years and is now the flagship production for HBO’s summer lineup. \nPerry Mason\, the indefatigable defender of hopeless cases that the police have seemingly wrapped up\, has been reinvented as a no-account Jake Gittes from Chinatown\, a two-bit blackmailer and lost generation PTSD war casualty navigating the streets of 1932 Los Angeles at the height of the depression. Hoovervilles\, the Bonus March\, and the rich in tuxedos with the poor at their feet form the background of the series and suggest our own era where Trumpvilles flourish and will soon expand when unemployment benefits are exhausted. \n \nWe’ll take a critical look at this refashioning of the criminal defense attorney\, with a Della Street who wants equal pay in the law office and an African-American investigator\, the refurbished Paul Drake\, who abandons the very low ceiling of a black beat cop on the LAPD to work elsewhere. \nWe’ll also take up questions of how HBO\, now owned and under the tutelage of AT&T\, the conservative telecom company from Dallas\, may be changing as it becomes the centerpiece of the AT&T/Time Warner streaming service. As well as how the American “period fetish” and faithfulness to the letter but not the spirit of the law of the original plays out in this remake. \nFor those who are able\, the Perry Mason series is available every Sunday from 9 to 10 pm EST for new episodes\, and is available on demand for streaming with many local cable / satellite providers of televised content. \nDennis Broe taught Television Studies at the Sorbonne. He is the author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure\, Maverick or How The West Was Lostand the soon-to-be-published Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Coronavirus\, Serial TV and The Rise of the Streaming Services. His TV criticism appears at Bro on the Global Television Beat. His television\, film\, art and literary criticism also appears in the British newspaper Morning Star and on People’s World and Crime Time. He is an associate editor of Culture Matters. His radio broadcasts on his show Breaking Glass appear on Art District Radio in Paris and on Arts Express in New York on WBAI and across the Pacifica Network.   \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is refused admission for inability to pay  
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/perry-mason-and-the-case-of-the-careless-remake/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200903T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200903T210000
DTSTAMP:20200814T012608Z
CREATED:20200717T033928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200814T012608Z
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SUMMARY:Lit and Film: Noir for the Summer of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:8 sessions\nvia teleconference on Zoom • participation code with registration\nSliding scale admission for teleconference \nContinuing in the MEP LITERATURE GROUP summer tradition\, we will once again delve into Noir genres– but with a twist! Starting August 6\, we will read four books and watch the movies that are based on them. Please join us for four books with the four movies that resulted from them. \nBOOK 1 Odd Man Out /F. L. Green \nF.L. (Laurie) Green’s novel was published in 1945. It followed upon wartime action by the IRA in Belfast\, in consequence of which Northern Ireland undertook its first and only execution of an IRA member\, 19-year old Tom Williams. In the novel\, an IRA plot goes horribly wrong when its leader\, Johnny Murtah\, kills an innocent man\, and he is gravely wounded. Odd Man Out is Green’s most significant novel. \nMOVIE 1 Odd Man Out /Carol Reed • AUGUST 20\nTakes place largely over the course of one tense night\, Reed’s psychological noir\, set in Belfast\, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con who leads a botched robbery. Injured and hunted by the police\, he seeks refuge throughout the city\, while the woman he loves searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create images of stunning depth for this fierce\, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself. \nBOOK 2 Clean Break /Lionel White • AUGUST 27\n“… none of them are professional crooks. They all have jobs\, they all live seemingly decent\, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them.” In the opening chapter\, Lionel White sets the stage for the main protagonists of the story: Marvin Unger\, court reporter; George Peatty\, a racetrack cashier and his bored wife\, Sherry; Randy Kennan\, a cop distracted by huge gambling debts; Mike O’Reilly\, a track barman\, regularly bets and loses half his earnings; and Johnny Clay\, just out of jail\, and who has come up with the plan to steal the earnings fromthe Canarsie Stakes. Creating diversions becomes necessary\, including knocking off the favourite in the race (animals lovers beware…). \nMOVIE 2 The Killing /Stanley Kubrick • SEPTEMBER 3\nStanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest\, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative\, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson\, and a phenomenal cast of character actors\, including Sterling Hayden\, Coleen Gray\, Timothy Carey\, Elisha Cook Jr.\, and Marie Windsor\, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony\, it’s Kubrick to the core. \nBOOK 3 Down There /David Goodis • SEPTEMBER 10\nOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall—now he does honky-tonk in a Philly drunk-dive. But then two people walk into Eddie’s life—the first promising Eddie a future\, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Down There (bookretitled after film to Shoot the Piano Player) is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty. \nMOVIE 3 Shoot The Piano Player /François Truffaut • SEPTEMBER 17\nFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this\, his most playful film. Part thriller\, part comedy\, part tragedy\, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour\, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags\, guns\, clowns\, and thugs\, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague. \nBOOK 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /George V. Higgins • SEPTEMBER 24\nElmore Leonard said that The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the best crime novel ever written\, though Higgins hated being classified as a crime writer. According to Leonard\, “He saw himself as the Charles Dickens of crime in Boston instead of a crime writer. He just understood the human condition and he understood it most vividly in the language and actions among low lives.” \nMOVIE 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /Peter Yates • OCTOBER 1\nIn one of the best performances of his legendary career\, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters\, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark\, unforgiving daylight. \nWe will attempt to watch together. Those who watch the film on their own are of course welcome to join in the discussions following the films as they are presented.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lit-and-film-noir-for-the-summer-of-covid-19/2020-09-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200831T000100
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200831T235900
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CREATED:20181223T054436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T162636Z
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SUMMARY:Multi-Month Pass: Now through Dec 31\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. \nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $150\, $200\, or $250 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between February 1 and May 31\, 2021. The curriculum has not been decided as of yet but this special price will apply for all that takes place from during the stated four-month period. Anyone can purchase this option and can attend all events until May 31\, even if purchased during December\, 2020 or January\, 2021. \nThe way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good for all events and classes that take place between now and May 31\, 2021. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension/. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-month-pass-january-21-through-may-20-2019-2020-08-29/2020-08-31/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200827T210000
DTSTAMP:20200814T012608Z
CREATED:20200717T033928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200814T012608Z
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SUMMARY:Lit and Film: Noir for the Summer of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:8 sessions\nvia teleconference on Zoom • participation code with registration\nSliding scale admission for teleconference \nContinuing in the MEP LITERATURE GROUP summer tradition\, we will once again delve into Noir genres– but with a twist! Starting August 6\, we will read four books and watch the movies that are based on them. Please join us for four books with the four movies that resulted from them. \nBOOK 1 Odd Man Out /F. L. Green \nF.L. (Laurie) Green’s novel was published in 1945. It followed upon wartime action by the IRA in Belfast\, in consequence of which Northern Ireland undertook its first and only execution of an IRA member\, 19-year old Tom Williams. In the novel\, an IRA plot goes horribly wrong when its leader\, Johnny Murtah\, kills an innocent man\, and he is gravely wounded. Odd Man Out is Green’s most significant novel. \nMOVIE 1 Odd Man Out /Carol Reed • AUGUST 20\nTakes place largely over the course of one tense night\, Reed’s psychological noir\, set in Belfast\, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con who leads a botched robbery. Injured and hunted by the police\, he seeks refuge throughout the city\, while the woman he loves searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create images of stunning depth for this fierce\, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself. \nBOOK 2 Clean Break /Lionel White • AUGUST 27\n“… none of them are professional crooks. They all have jobs\, they all live seemingly decent\, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them.” In the opening chapter\, Lionel White sets the stage for the main protagonists of the story: Marvin Unger\, court reporter; George Peatty\, a racetrack cashier and his bored wife\, Sherry; Randy Kennan\, a cop distracted by huge gambling debts; Mike O’Reilly\, a track barman\, regularly bets and loses half his earnings; and Johnny Clay\, just out of jail\, and who has come up with the plan to steal the earnings fromthe Canarsie Stakes. Creating diversions becomes necessary\, including knocking off the favourite in the race (animals lovers beware…). \nMOVIE 2 The Killing /Stanley Kubrick • SEPTEMBER 3\nStanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest\, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative\, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson\, and a phenomenal cast of character actors\, including Sterling Hayden\, Coleen Gray\, Timothy Carey\, Elisha Cook Jr.\, and Marie Windsor\, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony\, it’s Kubrick to the core. \nBOOK 3 Down There /David Goodis • SEPTEMBER 10\nOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall—now he does honky-tonk in a Philly drunk-dive. But then two people walk into Eddie’s life—the first promising Eddie a future\, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Down There (bookretitled after film to Shoot the Piano Player) is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty. \nMOVIE 3 Shoot The Piano Player /François Truffaut • SEPTEMBER 17\nFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this\, his most playful film. Part thriller\, part comedy\, part tragedy\, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour\, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags\, guns\, clowns\, and thugs\, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague. \nBOOK 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /George V. Higgins • SEPTEMBER 24\nElmore Leonard said that The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the best crime novel ever written\, though Higgins hated being classified as a crime writer. According to Leonard\, “He saw himself as the Charles Dickens of crime in Boston instead of a crime writer. He just understood the human condition and he understood it most vividly in the language and actions among low lives.” \nMOVIE 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /Peter Yates • OCTOBER 1\nIn one of the best performances of his legendary career\, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters\, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark\, unforgiving daylight. \nWe will attempt to watch together. Those who watch the film on their own are of course welcome to join in the discussions following the films as they are presented.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lit-and-film-noir-for-the-summer-of-covid-19/2020-08-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200820T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200820T210000
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SUMMARY:Lit and Film: Noir for the Summer of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:8 sessions\nvia teleconference on Zoom • participation code with registration\nSliding scale admission for teleconference \nContinuing in the MEP LITERATURE GROUP summer tradition\, we will once again delve into Noir genres– but with a twist! Starting August 6\, we will read four books and watch the movies that are based on them. Please join us for four books with the four movies that resulted from them. \nBOOK 1 Odd Man Out /F. L. Green \nF.L. (Laurie) Green’s novel was published in 1945. It followed upon wartime action by the IRA in Belfast\, in consequence of which Northern Ireland undertook its first and only execution of an IRA member\, 19-year old Tom Williams. In the novel\, an IRA plot goes horribly wrong when its leader\, Johnny Murtah\, kills an innocent man\, and he is gravely wounded. Odd Man Out is Green’s most significant novel. \nMOVIE 1 Odd Man Out /Carol Reed • AUGUST 20\nTakes place largely over the course of one tense night\, Reed’s psychological noir\, set in Belfast\, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con who leads a botched robbery. Injured and hunted by the police\, he seeks refuge throughout the city\, while the woman he loves searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create images of stunning depth for this fierce\, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself. \nBOOK 2 Clean Break /Lionel White • AUGUST 27\n“… none of them are professional crooks. They all have jobs\, they all live seemingly decent\, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them.” In the opening chapter\, Lionel White sets the stage for the main protagonists of the story: Marvin Unger\, court reporter; George Peatty\, a racetrack cashier and his bored wife\, Sherry; Randy Kennan\, a cop distracted by huge gambling debts; Mike O’Reilly\, a track barman\, regularly bets and loses half his earnings; and Johnny Clay\, just out of jail\, and who has come up with the plan to steal the earnings fromthe Canarsie Stakes. Creating diversions becomes necessary\, including knocking off the favourite in the race (animals lovers beware…). \nMOVIE 2 The Killing /Stanley Kubrick • SEPTEMBER 3\nStanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest\, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative\, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson\, and a phenomenal cast of character actors\, including Sterling Hayden\, Coleen Gray\, Timothy Carey\, Elisha Cook Jr.\, and Marie Windsor\, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony\, it’s Kubrick to the core. \nBOOK 3 Down There /David Goodis • SEPTEMBER 10\nOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall—now he does honky-tonk in a Philly drunk-dive. But then two people walk into Eddie’s life—the first promising Eddie a future\, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Down There (bookretitled after film to Shoot the Piano Player) is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty. \nMOVIE 3 Shoot The Piano Player /François Truffaut • SEPTEMBER 17\nFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this\, his most playful film. Part thriller\, part comedy\, part tragedy\, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour\, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags\, guns\, clowns\, and thugs\, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague. \nBOOK 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /George V. Higgins • SEPTEMBER 24\nElmore Leonard said that The Friends of Eddie Coyle was the best crime novel ever written\, though Higgins hated being classified as a crime writer. According to Leonard\, “He saw himself as the Charles Dickens of crime in Boston instead of a crime writer. He just understood the human condition and he understood it most vividly in the language and actions among low lives.” \nMOVIE 4 Friends of Eddie Coyle /Peter Yates • OCTOBER 1\nIn one of the best performances of his legendary career\, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters\, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark\, unforgiving daylight. \nWe will attempt to watch together. Those who watch the film on their own are of course welcome to join in the discussions following the films as they are presented.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lit-and-film-noir-for-the-summer-of-covid-19/2020-08-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Multi-Month Pass: Now through Dec 31\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. \nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $150\, $200\, or $250 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between February 1 and May 31\, 2021. The curriculum has not been decided as of yet but this special price will apply for all that takes place from during the stated four-month period. Anyone can purchase this option and can attend all events until May 31\, even if purchased during December\, 2020 or January\, 2021. \nThe way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good for all events and classes that take place between now and May 31\, 2021. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension/. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/4-month-pass-january-21-through-may-20-2019-2020-08-29/2020-07-31/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Final Friday Films: Modern Times
DESCRIPTION:Modern Times\nUSA 87 minutes 1936\nWritten and directed by Charlie Chaplin\nStarring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard\n \nChaplin does borrow from Rene Clair’s A Nous La Liberte in Modern Times (once also entitled The Masses). Here Chaplin again appears as The Tramp\, although this is the era of sound\, it is essentially a silent film. The borrowing from Clair on being a comedic treatment of worker alienation is clear. Chaplin plays an assembly line worker where he is subjected to being force-fed by a malfunctioning “feeding machine” (cutting the vital minutes of lunch) and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery. Eventually he has a nervous breakdown apparently sabotaging a machine in the process and throwing the factory into chaos. He is then hospitalized. Following his recovery\, the now unemployed factory worker is mistakenly arrested as a communist outside agitator\, the moment displaying Chaplin’s call to workers of the world to unite. Chaplin would leave the US upon the arrival of anti-communist hysteria tenyears later. \nFrom The Guardian of July 14\, 1936\nNAZIS PROHIBIT CHAPLIN FILM\n“Charlie Chaplin’s new film Modern Times has been prohibited in Germany. Reuter was informed at the Propaganda Ministry this afternoon that there was at present no prospect that the picture would be shown in this country. Another Nazi spokesman said that reports from abroad had indicated that the picture had a “Communist tendency” and that this was no doubt the reason why the picture was unacceptable.”
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/final-friday-films-modern-times/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200228T203000
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SUMMARY:Mandabi (The Money Order)
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series\ncontinuing The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series from 2014\nWritten and directed by Ousmane Sembène\nSenegal\, 1968\, 90 minutes\n(In French and Wolof with English subtitles) \n \nThe film is based on Sembène’s novel The Money-Order. It is the director’s first film inhis native Wolof language\, and also the first full-length African language film from West Africa. Since most of the Senegalese population did not understand French\, Sembène wanted to create cinema for Wolof speakers. Sembène’s Mandabi also made for international recognition of his development as a film maker. \nAn unemployed Senegalese man\, Ibrahima Dieng\, lives with his two wives and kids in Dakar. His nephew\, Abdou\, sends him a money order from Paris worth 25\,000 francs\, which he has saved from working as a street sweeper. Ibrahima is to keep some of the money for himself\, save a portion for his nephew\, and give a portion to his sister. \nHowever\, Ibrahima faces numerous difficulties trying to obtain the money order. Not having an ID\, Ibrahima must go through several levels of Senegalese bureaucracy trying to get one\, then failing after spending money he doesn’t have. Then his neighbors go to his house asking for money which brings on more debt. In the end\, he is swindled by Mbaye\, a local businessman\, who promised to cash the money order for him\, but instead sells Ibrahima’s house to a French man while at the same time stealing the money order\, saying that he was pickpocketed. Senegalese neo-realism. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mandabi-the-money-order/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Film and Discussion: State of Siege
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Films\nContinuing the Anti-Bourgeois Film Series\n“The problem is not to make political films but to make films politically.” —Godard / Gorin \nFrance\, 1973\, 121 minutes\nDirected by Costa-Gavras\nfeaturing Yves Montand \n \nState of Siege details the overt and covert practices of the Agency for International Development throughout the world\, with a particular emphasis on events that took place in Montevideo\, Uruguay in 1970. The actual taking of supposed American ambassador Daniel Mitrione by Tupamaro guerillas as a hostage for the release from prison of fellow Tupamaros\, details in interviews themany training exercises conducted by American forces in both the US and Latin America\, concerning psychological and physical torture techniques\, which were accompanied by broad austerity measures and implementation of anti-trade union measures and broad militaristic attacks on other working class organizations. \nIn State of Siege\, Mitrione is known as Philip Santore\, is well-played by Yves Montand. The rightist military government of Uruguay would never have allowed Costa-Gavras to film in Uruguay. Instead\, it was filmed in Chile\, in and around Santiago\, and in the coastal cities of Valparaíso and Viña del Mar. during the brief time of Salvador Allende\, just before the 1973 Chilean coup d’état\, planned with Nixon and Kissinger with Pinochet\, in much the same way in which American policy is detailed in the staged interviews in State of Siege. Costa-Gavras would later dramatize the Chilean coup in the film Missing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/film-and-discussion-state-of-siege/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191220T193000
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SUMMARY:Bertolucci’s 1900
DESCRIPTION:with Robert DeNiro\, Gerard Depardieu\, Dominique Sanda\, Stefania Sandrelli\, Laura Betti\, Donald Sutherland\, Burt Lancaster\, and Sterling Hayden. \nBoth born on the day of Verdi’s death at the beginning of the 20th Century\, the characters that as adults are played by DeNiro (Alfredo) and Depardieu (Olmo)\, grow up side by side as friends\, and during fascism as class enemies\, in this epic depiction of the class struggles in Italy leading up to the Eurocommunist moment in 1975\, focused primarily on the rise of fascism and the fight that led to end the dictates of the Italian right with Alfredo accommodating the fascists at his estate\, while Olmo organizes and takes part in the broad struggles including the armed resistance. \nThere are few films like 1900. “…told with an unyielding Marxist fervor\, 1900 overflows with an abundant love of life in all its beauty and pain\, sensuality and despair.” —The Los Angeles Times \n“1900 explores a vibrant familial identity existing between a group of socialist farmers\, the landowners they work for\, and fascist factions penetrating rural Parma\, Italy. Its half-century scope provides a raw macro/micro slant on psychological\, generational\, political\, and cultural changes in the region of Bertolucci’s birth. Compared with the contained\, at times claustrophobic\, expressionist style of Last Tango\, 1900 is a 180-degree turn into a wide open direction. For his thirteenth film Bertolucci wanted to express what he saw as Italy’s “multi-culture” society becoming a “mono-culture\,” due to the influence of the industrial revolution\, and capitalism more precisely. The thick-layered chronicle doesn’t sweep across time so much as it escorts the audience through indelible composite events that bristle with personal\, social\, and political characteristics….Since [when it was made] 1900 has come to stand as an organic cinematic journey through chapters of a rich apocryphal history that evinces an ongoing struggle between the world’s rich elite and everyone else.”—Cole Smithey
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/bertoluccis-1900/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191025T213000
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SUMMARY:Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series\ndirected by Akira Kurosawa\nJapan\, 1960\, 150 minutes \nOne of three noirs made by Kurosawa\n \nA young executive hunts down his father’s killer in the scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune\, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan. \nThere is one point where a wedding cake arrives\,. It is in the shape of corporate headquarters. A rose protrudes from the office where Furuya\, a former Corporation employee\, committed suicide. Many people believe Furuya\, implicated in a scandal\, killed himself to keep from testifying against his superiors. \nPolice interrupt the wedding to arrest corporate assistant officer Wada (Kamatari Fujiwara) on charges of bribery\, and they question him about a kickback scheme. After Wada is released\, Nishi must prevent him from committing suicide. \nHis motives are not kind. Nishi wants to use Wada and also contract officer Shirai (Ko Nishimura) to exact revenge on the Corporation. He reveals to Wada and Shirai that Furuya was his father. According to Nishi\, he only married Yoshiko to get close to the family.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kurosawas-the-bad-sleep-well/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190927T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190927T210000
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SUMMARY:Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Films—an anti-bourgeois film series\n“The problem is not to make political films but to make films politically.” —Godard / Gorin \nMORGAN: A Suitable Case for Treatment\nUK\, 1966\, 97 Min\nDirected by Karel Reisz \n \nRed diaper baby Morgan Delt (David Warner) is failing as an artist. Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave)\, his bourgeois wife\, is divorcing him in order to marry fellow bourgeois Charles Napier (Robert Stephens)\, an art gallery owner. Locked into a personal world of fantasy\, Morgan begins an all-out campaign to win back Leonie\, performing all kinds of stunts\, including putting a skeleton in her bed and much else to demonstrate what will ultimately be a meaningless life with her return to a bourgeois existence. When the stunts fail\, Morgan plots to kidnap Leonie\, who still nurtures residual feelings of love tinged with pity for Morgan. The plan fails\, and Morgan is arrested and imprisoned but does not give up—he remains committed to revolutionary ideals. The final scene of the film was a calling to revolutionary youth the world over in 1966\, particularly in England. \n“Released in April 1966 – the month Time magazine’s Swinging London issue was published – His madness\, therefore\, is like the state celebrated by RD Laing: insanity not as a state worthy of condign treatment but as a rebellion\, the only possible act of sanity in a mad\, mad world.”   —Jon Savage\, The Guardian\, February\, 2011
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/morgan-a-suitable-case-for-treatment/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Film Screenings
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