{"id":32,"date":"2018-04-04T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender-lib.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/04\/democracy-on-film-the-immigrant-experience\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:03:00","slug":"democracy-on-film-the-immigrant-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/04\/democracy-on-film-the-immigrant-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy on Film: The Immigrant Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAppropriate for a country of immigrants, Module 1 of Democracy on Film focuses on the immigrant experience. Immigrant stories are incredibly diverse, just as immigrant experiences are diverse. We also should make sure, as always, to take a close look at who is telling the immigrant’s story.<\/p>\n

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Module 1: The Immigrant Experience<\/h4>\n

Introductory Lesson: From Penny Claptrap to Movie Palaces\u2014the First Three Decades<\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/b>: \u201cThe Immigrant\u201d (1917, d. Charlie Chaplin) — HU DVD 8502
Chapter 2<\/b>: \u201cThe Godfather, Part II\u201d (1974, d. Francis Ford Coppola) — HU DVD 2542
Chapter 3<\/b>: \u201cAmerica, America\u201d (1963, d. Elia Kazan) — HU DVD 7756
Chapter 4<\/b>: \u201cEl Norte\u201d (1983, d. Gregory Nava) — HU DVD 10144
Chapter 5<\/b>: \u201cThe Namesake\u201d (2006, d. Mira Nair) — HU DVD 3499<\/p>\n

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For additional films outside the American context, check out this list from BFI: 10 great films about immigration and migrant experience<\/a><\/div>\n
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Martin Scorsese’s own Gangs of New York<\/i> (HU DVD 590) is definitely a film I’d add to this list. Dancer in the Dark<\/i> (HU DVD 285) is an incredible movie that highlights the exploitation of immigrants. For an offbeat pick, I’m actually going to pick DVD 14853, The Last Command<\/i>, which is the story of an exile working as a film extra. It highlights his relationship to his country using film\/storytelling in a really interesting way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Appropriate for a country of immigrants, Module 1 of Democracy on Film focuses on the immigrant experience. Immigrant stories are incredibly diverse, just as immigrant experiences are diverse. We also should make sure, as always, to take a close look at who is telling the immigrant’s story. Module 1: The Immigrant Experience Introductory Lesson: From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97],"class_list":{"0":"post-32","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-democracy-on-film","10":"post-with-thumbnail","11":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}