{"id":693,"date":"2013-03-04T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/03\/04\/hot-docs-how-to-start-a-revolution\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:43:00","slug":"hot-docs-how-to-start-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/03\/04\/hot-docs-how-to-start-a-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs: How to Start a Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<i>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>How to Start a Revolution <\/b><\/i>(DVD 10642) travels the globe to demonstrate the influence of Gene Sharp, a noted political scientist whose writings on nonviolent revolution and protest have been used worldwide. From Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War to Egypt during the height of the Arab Spring, Sharp&#8217;s writings have influenced generations of political upheaval. The film attempts to bring more credit to Sharp&#8217;s writings and the ways that they have shaped freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Official description from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awildidea-movie.com\/making.php\">the film&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Half a world away from Cairo\u2019s Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man. But for the world\u2019s dictators his ideas can be the catalyst for the end of their regime.<\/p>\n<p>Few people outside the world of academia have ever heard his name, but his writings on nonviolent revolution (most notably \u2018From Dictatorship to Democracy\u2019, a 93-page, 198-step guide to toppling dictators, available free for download in 40 languages) have inspired a new generation of protesters living under authoritarian regimes who yearn for democratic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>This new film <i>HOW TO START A REVOLUTION<\/i> reveals how Gene\u2019s ideas work in action. The film uses extended interviews with Gene himself, his assistant, his followers and leaders of revolutionary movements worldwide, as well as user-generated content from around the globe, to reveal the power of nonviolent revolution on the streets. <br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection. How to Start a Revolution (DVD 10642) travels the globe to demonstrate the influence of Gene Sharp, a noted political scientist whose writings on nonviolent revolution and protest have been used worldwide. From Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,174],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-documentary","tag-hot-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}