Zofijini TV Blog

Wikileaks – Secrets and Lies (2011)

zofijinitv — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:34:56 +0000

WikiLeaks has released a number of significant documents which have become front-page news items. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and corruption in Kenya.[11] In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an Apache helicopter, as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public.[12] In October 2010, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations. This allowed every death in Iraq, and across the border in Iran, to be mapped.[13] In April 2011, WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[14]

Behind the Screens: Hollywood goes Hypercommercial (2000)

zofijinitv — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:31:12 +0000

Hollywood movies are rapidly becoming vehicles for the ulterior marketing and advertising motives of studios and their owners, rather than entertainment in their own right.

Behind the Screens explores this trend toward “hypercommercialism” through phenomena such as product placement, tie-ins, merchandising and cross-promotions. It combines multiple examples taken directly from the movies with incisive interviews provided by film scholars, cultural critics, political economists, and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter.

Behind the Screens presents an accessible argument designed for school and college-age audiences– precisely the demographic most prized by both Hollywood studios and advertisers alike. It features examples drawn from movies such as Wayne’s World, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Summer of Sam, and Toy Story. Interviewees include Jeremy Pikser, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the Warren Beatty film Bulworth; Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Communication at New York University; Susan Douglas, Professor of Communication at the University of Michigan; Professor Robert W. McChesney of the Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Professor Janet Wasko of the university of Oregon.

Vir: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=102

Rosling’s World (2010)

zofijinitv — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:55:27 +0000

Hans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His Gapminder presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. In this SVT (Swedish Television) documentary, film maker Pär Fjällström lets Hans Rosling tell the story about his life and what has shaped his world view.

Top Secret America (2011)

zofijinitv — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:22:03 +0000

FRONTLINE reveals 9/11′s unprecedented yet largely invisible legacy: the creation of a vast maze of clandestine government and private agencies designed to hunt terrorists and prevent future attacks on the U.S.

Vir: http://video.pbs.org/video/2117159594/#

Mickey Mouse Monopoly (2001)

zofijinitv — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:23:47 +0000

The Disney Company’s massive success in the 20th century is based on creating an image of innocence, magic and fun. Its animated films in particular are almost universally lauded as wholesome family entertainment, enjoying massive popularity among children and endorsement from parents and teachers.

Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world these films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This daring new video insightfully analyzes Disney’s cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on our global culture. Including interviews with cultural critics, media scholars, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers, multicultural educators, college students and children, Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasure.

Vir: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=112

Confessions of an Undercover Cop (2011)

zofijinitv — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:45:36 +0000

Bafta-winning film-maker Brian Hill unravels the extraordinary story of Mark Kennedy, the undercover police officer who infiltrated groups of environmentalists to inform on their planned protests. He lived as Mark Stone for seven years, becoming a popular figure in the community, sleeping with women and falling in love with one activist, even as he gathered intelligence. Kennedy paints a picture of two worlds: the mostly well-intentioned world of the activists and the uncaring police he was working for. It’s hard to know which is more shocking: his sexual relationships with “targets” or the scale of resources devoted to thwarting peaceful protest. Either way, it’s an eye-opening film.

The Wave (1981)

zofijinitv — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:58:35 +0000

Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967, whose teacher wanted to explain the rise of the Nazi party to his students.

Hot Paint (2011)

zofijinitv — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:32:51 +0000

A short documentary discussing the topic of copyright and sampled based artwork. Featuring interviews from audio/ video remixer Cassetteboy, founder of the website whosampled.com Nadav Poraz, digital artist Paul B. Davis and art journalist Francesca Gavin.

Časovna banka (2011)

zofijinitv — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:39:54 +0000

Časovna banka je baza, ki beleži in spremlja kroženje in porabo časovne menjave v skupnosti, ki sodeluje na ta način. Menjave potekajo po principu – jaz tebi ti njej, ona meni in tako naprej vse do meja tistih, ki se odločimo za članstvo v banki. Časovna banka omogoča aktivno povezovanje konkretnih ponudb in povpraševanj po storitvah, znanju in spretnostih; je neke vrste »časovna posredovalnica« ali »menjalnica«. Osnova tovrstnega skupnostnega sodelovanja ali menjave je pravilo, da vsa znanja in vse spretnosti vrednoti oziroma ceni enako – ena ura dela je enaka eni uri dela! Opravim delo, ker ga znam in ker me veseli, na podoben način drugi meni opravi delo, ki ga sam ne zmorem, ne znam.

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Commanding Heights – The Battle for the World Economy (2002)

zofijinitv — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:20:49 +0000

In 2002, PBS aired a six-hour documentary based on the book. This documentary was later sold on DVD, and is available for viewing free at PBS’ web site for those with high-speed Internet connections (see external links). The documentary is narrated by David Ogden Stiers.

Thanks to its later date, the documentary film is able to address many of the items Yergin and Stanislaw missed in their original book, including the recession, the collapse of Asian economies, the anti-globalization movement, and the attack on New York City. All told, two of the documentary’s six hours—the entire final third—address things that happened since the original book was published. They also include free market solutions to international poverty that was not included in the book – they interview economist Hernando de Soto, whose book on the subject was not published until after the initial printing of Commanding Heights.

Like the book, the documentary attracted more support and criticism. One example is the anti-globalization movement, which argued they were portrayed unfairly. In the documentary, James Wolfensohn, then President of the World Bank, is interviewed and says that such protesters are attacking people “who are devoting their lives to addressing the very questions that these people claim to be addressing.” The documentary includes a scene of Wolfensohn getting hit in the face with a pie by a protester.

Unlike the book, the PBS documentary is far more wary of the possible end of the current era of globalization. For example, they include a parallel between radio stocks of the 1920s and dot com stocks of the 1990s – both were industries built on new technology which had little capital, but which fell prey to a market bubble. Likewise, the documentary draws an unsettling parallel between the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the terrorist assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.

The documentary is also accused of further oversimplfying the so-called “Battle of Ideas” between Keynes and Hayek. For example, in the DVD version, Keynes is named together with Karl Marx and Lenin as supporters of controlled economies. However Keynes saw himself as a liberal, in both the party political and economic senses of the term.

Vir: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_Heights

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