JANUARY 16

Film:
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo 1965) BluRay 030, DVD 1300


Reading (to be done by January 22):

Edward Said - "The Dictatorship of Truth: An Interview with Gillo Pontecorvo" and Irene Bignardi, "The Making of The Battle of Algiers," both in course reader.

Assignment for the week. Graduates, please email essay to me at elkrugamigos@earthlink.net; undergraduates, please bring a printed copy to class:

Listen carefully to the music played during the aftermath of the first French bombing of the Casbah. The music reappears roughly ten minutes later, in the aftermath of the bombings in the cafe, discotheque and Air France. Discuss the impact of reiterating that specific piece of music in that place in the film, particularly in terms of audience empathy and our emotional response to the scene.