A New College of California Activism & Social Change and Media Studies Film Festival

US War Propaganda in Film: Patriotism and the Politics
of Otherness

In the course of the last century, the 'enemies' of the US have donned many different masks -- Nazi, Japanese, communist, Vietnamese, Korean, Arab . . Aimed to educate and mobilize popular support for military actions against the "other", war propaganda has taken many forms. Through the medium of film, it has often imagined futuristic dystopias of the battle between good (us) and evil (them), inspiring fear and racism under the guise of promoting a stable national identity and patriotic duty. This film festival offers a sample of recent Hollywood war propaganda, as well as a selection of films aiming to critique it.


SAT, SEPT. 11, 6:30-9
Dr. Strangelove (1963)
Stanley Kubrick's classic satire, a black comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse.

shown with

Duck and Cover

Suggested donation: $3 for all day admission/no-one turned away for lack of funds.

New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco