{"id":5713,"date":"2010-10-18T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2010-10-19T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:09:59","slug":"film-series-goes-back-in-time-to-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/10\/film-series-goes-back-in-time-to-the-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Film series goes back in time to the 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four films will be screened at Brock this month as part of the Sixties Fest Film Series.<\/p>\n

The series covers films representative of 1960s Canada. The films will be introduced by professors in Communication, Popular Culture and Film. Screenings are as follows:<\/p>\n

\"NotesTuesday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. to 12 noon, WH204
\n<\/strong>Entre la mer et l’eau douce<\/em> (Michel Brault, 1967).
\nQuebec’s youth, and Canadian cinema, enjoy their own “quiet revolution” in this feature.
\nIntroduction: Scott Henderson, associate professor<\/p>\n

Thursday, Oct. 21, 12 noon to 2 p.m., WH327 (three films)
\n<\/strong>Sex ed meets art cinema in Phoebe: The Story of a Premarital Pregnancy<\/em> and The Game<\/em>, George Kaczenders’s classic National Film Board films about the pressures, anxieties and perils of coming-of-age in 1960s Canada. The Invention of the Adolescent<\/em> offers a history of coming-of-age, culminating with attention to specific concerns of the 1960s.
\nIntroduction: Christie Milliken, assistant professor<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 12 noon to 2 p.m., AS217
\n<\/strong>High<\/em> (Larry Kent, 1967).
\nOriginally banned in Ontario, this film is a vision of the violent underside of the ’60s drug and youth counterculture.
\nIntroduction: Barry Grant, professor<\/p>\n

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2 to 4 p.m., TH254
\n<\/strong>The Devil’s Toy<\/em> (Claude Jutra) presents teenage skateboarders as a challenge to city authorities. Notes on a Film about Donna and Gail<\/em> is a follow-up to the classic Nobody Waved Goodbye<\/em>, depicting a man’s frustrated attempts to understand the friendship between two female acquaintances.
\nIntroduction: Jim Leach, professor and director of the Interdisciplinary MA in Popular Culture<\/p>\n

The series leads up to the 24th annual Two Days of Canada Conference, which will be at Brock on Nov. 4 and 5. For more information, visit brocku.ca\/2dc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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