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Mexico film series
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Ravel)
Mon Jan 14 15:23:00 2002
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Dear Social Justice Cooperative Members,
I am writing to invite you to attend a film series on Mexico, Memory, and
Migration that I am organizing this January at MIT. You will find details
below. Please bring friends to the films, and pass this e-mail along to
any other interested acquaintances.
Many thanks,
Prof. Jeff Ravel
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Mexico: Migration and Memory (Film Series)
Films shown in this series will explore the lives and experiences of rural
Mexicans over the last century and a half
of Mexican history, from the 1850s to NAFTA. Topics will include rural
memory of national events, struggles for
land rights and family relationships in the twentieth century, and the
struggles in Chiapas since 1994.
Contact: Jeff Ravel, E51-285, x3-4451, ravel@mit.edu
Sponsor: History
"El Norte"
Jeff Ravel
EL NORTE (1984). This film dramatizes the flight of an Indian brother and
sister who flee Guatemalan military
forces in search of safety and a better life. They pass through Mexico,
make a hazardous crossing at the
US-Mexican border, then face the difficulties of immigrant life in Los
Angeles. A moving portrayal of the clash of
cultures and the desperate plight of political refugees from Latin America.
Tue Jan 15, 07-10:00pm, 56-169
"Barriers of Solitude" and "Alonso's Dream"
Jeff Ravel
BARRIERS OF SOLITUDE (1998). A rural "chronicle" evoking the memories of
the town of San Jose, and
setting them against major events in the post-independence period of
Mexican history. ALONSO'S DREAM
(2000). Documentary treatment of a Mayan lay preacher caught between the
federal government and the
Zapatista uprising.
Tue Jan 22, 07-10:00pm, 56-169
"Paulina"
Jeff Ravel
PAULINA (1997). Part documentary, part fictionalized approach to the life
of a rural woman whose parents
traded her for land rights in the 1950s. In middle age, she returns to
confront her parents and the town.
Tue Jan 29, 07-10:00pm, 56-169
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Jeffrey S. Ravel
Associate Professor of History
History Faculty; E51-285
MIT
77 Massachussets Ave.
Cambridge MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-4451
Fax: (617) 253-9406
E-Mail: ravel@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/ravel/www
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