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Parenting For Progress: Reflections On Matt Ross’S Captain Fantastic, Bryant W. Sculos
Parenting For Progress: Reflections On Matt Ross’S Captain Fantastic, Bryant W. Sculos
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Matt Ross's film Captain Fantastic explores the difficulties of raising one's kids to be critical of modern capitalistic society. This essay explores the parenting lessons that can be taken from the film in connection with contemporary politics and protest movements. As people who are concerned with social justice, this essay attempts to think through the question: how should we be raising our children in these tormented, unjust times?
Neglected Masterpieces Of Cinema, Louis Proyect
Neglected Masterpieces Of Cinema, Louis Proyect
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This article will acquaint you with ten of the more important leftwing films I have reviewed over the past sixteen years as a member of New York Film Critics Online. You will not see listed familiar works such as “The Battle of Algiers” but instead those that deserve wider attention, the proverbial neglected masterpieces. They originate from different countries and are available through Internet streaming, either freely from Youtube or through Netflix or Amazon rental. In several instances you will be referred to film club websites that like the films under discussion deserve wider attention since they are the counterparts …