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MEDIA
ADVISORY
ATTENTION:
CITY DESKS, FEATURE DESKS
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3/14/00
- File #15276
Contact:
Janet Gilmore
(510)
642-3734
jeg@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
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WHAT: |
"The
Academy Awards: Boys, Girls, Men and Women in the 1999
Film Year," a lunch hour critique by Carolyn Patty
Blum, a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley's
School of Law (Boalt Hall).
Blum
will assess major themes and trends in the 1999 movies
that concern gender roles and identity, including middle-class
men in identity crises; marginalized moms with little
control over their lives; and children as truth tellers.
She'll also explore other overarching themes in many of
these movies, including spirituality.
Among
the movies Blum will discuss are "American Beauty,"
"Magnolia," "Eyes Wide Shut," "Boys
Don't Cry," "Tumbleweeds" and "Anywhere
But Here."
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WHEN: |
Thursday,
March 16, 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
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WHERE: |
The
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall. (Enter Boalt Hall at the corner
of Piedmont Ave. and Bancroft Way). |
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BACKGROUND:
Blum, who also is director of the law school's International
Human Rights Law Clinic, has written about films and social
justice. She uses movies in her classes to teach lessons
on such matters as legal ethics and refugee law. She and
her husband, Harry Chotiner, a former film producer and
executive at Twentieth Century Fox, view films every weekend.
Blum has seen every major movie nominated for an Academy
Award.
Blum
has been holding this informal discussion with law students
for five consecutive years. This year's talk, the first
to focus on gender issues, is sponsored by the law school's
Center for Social Justice, its Berkeley Women's Law Journal,
and its Berkeley Women's Law Association.
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