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Hampshire College professor and stand-up theorist Joan Braderman takes on power and desire in TV's campiest series. "Joan Does Dynasty," a classic in feminist media deconstruction, is a hilarious look at the materialistic 80's in the context of the ordinary working person's life. Co-Director Manual Delanda. Screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC (2008).

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The Mapplethorpe/Serrano controversies sparked a pressing debate on censorship of the arts. Artist David Avalos, Washington Project for the Arts' Philip Brookman, critic Coco Fusco, poet Allen Ginsberg and painter Leon Golub discuss the issues at stake. What is the conservative agenda behind arts censorship and what can we do to combat it?

Scope and Contents Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand. Manhatta documents the look of early-20th-century Manhattan. With the city as subject, the film consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose non-narrative structure, beginning with a ferry approaching Manhattan and ending with a sunset view from a skyscraper. The primary objective of the film is to explore the relationship between photography and film; camera movement is kept to a minimum, as is incidental motion within each shot. Each frame provides a view of...

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Analysis of an anti-apartheid South African newspaper with anti-censorship strategies and a non-racial social democratic vision.