John Pilger Film Screening
March 31, 2011 18:30
Published:
March 15, 2011 04:36
by John Shemeld |
On Thursday, 31 March at 6:30pm in Nottingham Trent University's Chaucer Lecture Theatre 2, Goldsmith Street (just by the Nottingham Trent University tram stop)
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Nottingham Stop the War Coalition has arranged a screening of John Pilger's latest film, The War You Don't See.
The film will be introduced by Professor Richard Keeble from Lincoln University's School of Journalism, (custodians of the John Pilger archive) and will be followed by a discussion.
Pilger traces the history of ‘embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War 1 to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. See Rageh Omar, among others, admit that he could have done better!
Entry is free, but you may be asked to throw money into our collection bucket.
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In so far as it exists at all, Nottingham Stop the War Coalition seems to have degenerated into a film studies group holding occasional meetings. meanwhile, the war goes on.