I have chosen film, cinema, in my work in order to theorize difficult questions regarding democracy and difference. There are, however, many points of caution in choosing to use film. Films often can reinforce and affirm stereotyped and demeaning images of others; that is, film is as effective a tool for installing as it is for challenging and overcoming oppression. However, as I write in Chapter One, the fictionalized realism of film can allow for a sharing of the different experiences that individuals live through and can serve as a helpful tool to uncover the raw materials that make up our various social or cultural identities. In other words, and more specifically, film and film criticism facilitate the search for a location from which to envision a democratic politics in ways that are respectful of difference and that quite possibly can contribute to the transformation of one’s sensibilities by providing an opportunity to theorize and imagine a new or emerging politics from a position of eyewitness
Identify two films not presented in class that you believe have the potential to transform one’s political sensibilities pertaining to deep differences. In addition to your recommendations, be sure to give a full citation and a short abstract for each of the two films you suggest. To add a new post, click the “My Recommendation” link below
American film
Released in the last 5 years with citation
and it can’t be one of those films
Recommended Feature Length Film Texts:
Beach Rats, 2017; Directed by Eliza Hittman
Boys Don’t Cry, 1998; Directed by Kimberly Pierce
Boyz ‘N the Hood , 1991; Directed by John Singleton
Call Me By Your Name, 2017; Directed by Luca Quadagnino
Cesar Chavez: An American Hero , 2014; Directed by Diego Luna
Do the Right Thing, 1989; Directed by Spike Lee
Get Out, 2017; Directed by Jordan Peele
Loving , 2016; Directed by Jeff Nichols
Milk, 2008; Directed by Gus Van Sant
Moonlight, 2016; Directed by Barry Jenkins
My Own Private Idaho, 1991; Directed by Gus Van Sant
Selma, 2014; Directed by Ava DuVernay
Smoke Signals, 1998; Directed by Chris Eyre
Stonewall: Where Pride Began, 2015; Directed by Roland Emmerich
Straight Outta Compton, 2015; Directed by F. Gary Gray
The Birth of a Nation, 2016; Directed by Nate Parker
Twelve Years a Slave, 2013; Directed by Steve McQueen
Required Documentary Film Texts (Democracy and Difference website):
*13th, 2016; Directed by Ava DuVernay
A Place of Rage, 1991; Directed by Pratibha Parmar
America in Black
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