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"Battle of Algiers" Movie & DiscussionMonday, October 27, 2008 School of Law * Moot Courtroom (A59) * 4:30-7:30 p.m. Movie snacks & beverages provided One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's, “The Battle of Algiers” focuses on the events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Shot in the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film vividly re-creates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French. The violence soon escalates on both sides in this war drama that's astonishingly relevant today. Discussion follows with Professors Robert Spadoni & Gillian Weiss HOSTED by: Robert Strassfeld, Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Global Security Law and Policy DISCUSSION features: ROBERT SPADONI, Assistant Professor, Film Studies Dept of English, Case Western Reserve University Robert Spadoni teaches courses on a variety of film-related topics. These have included: “Introduction to Film,” ‘Introduction to Film Genres,” “The Horror Film,” “Science Fiction Films,” ‘Hitchcock,’ “Movies and Meaning,” “American Cinema History & Culture,” “History of Film: Origins to the Present,” and “Going to the Movies: Film Spectatorship, Reception, and Reflexivity.” His research focuses on the horror film genre and on the historical reception of cinema. In his 2007 University of California Press book, Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre, he brings these two research interests together. Prof. Spadoni’s essays on film include “The Uncanny Body of Early Sound Film” and “The Figure Seen from the Rear, Vitagraph, and the Development of Shot/Reverse Shot.” He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Chicago.  GILLIAN LEE WEISS, Assistant Professor of History, Case Western Reserve UniversityGillian L. Weiss has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of History since 2002. She received her A.B. in History, summa cum laude, from Princeton University (1993) and her A.M. in History (1997) and her Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Stanford University (2002). She authored a book, Back from Barbary: Mediterranean Slavery and the Rise of France, which is under review. Scholarly articles by Prof. Weiss have been published in academic journals in France, Italy, Taiwan, and the U.S. She has been a nominee and recipient of a variety of honors, fellowships, grants, stipends, and prizes. Prof. Weiss has taught a wide variety of courses, most recently “Historiography” and “Method and Theory.” A member of the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History, Prof. Weiss is fluent in French and has a reading knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese. |
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