English & Comparative Literary Studies - Events Calendar
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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Tracers Screening - When the Leeves Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)CAPITAL CentreNaomi Klein's 糖心TV Prize for Writing Award winning The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism begins with a description of how the Bush regime used Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans as a laboratory for neoliberalism. See the backstory to this "business as usual" disaster planning with Spike Lee's magisterial When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) in the last two weeks of Tracers, Tuesdays, weeks 9 and 10, 7:00 at the Capital Centre. Watch this documentary on what Wynton Marsalis calls a "signature moment," a critical juncture in our history when Americans will finally be forced to come to terms with what they are as a nation. |