January Film Series "Censorship, Media Control and Falsehood at the movies"

The Oberlin Community Big Read Film Series

Censorship, Media Control and Falsehood at the Movies

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Four Fantastic Films that Follow up on Features of Ray Bradbury's
Future Fiction, Fahrenheit 451

­­­­­­­­­Wednesdays   •  7:00 pm  •  Oberlin Public Library  •  Free  •

Fun  •  Thought-provoking  •  Free popcorn!

January         5	Pleasantville	Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire are 1980s teens who find themselves living in the complacency of a 1950s TV show. Things begin to change!
January 12	Good Night and Good Luck	George Clooney directs and acts in this docu-drama about the courageous TV anchorman Edward R. Murrow resisting authority in the Cold War.
January 19	The Truman Show	Jim Carrey and Laura Linney star in a 1998 fantasy comedy about a perfect small town life that turns out to be a media fraud.
January 26	Wag the Dog	Hollywood spin artists invent a war to win a presidential election. A 1998 comedy with Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Anne Heche.

The Big Read is funded by the NEA in cooperation with the IMLS and Arts Midwest, and sponsored by Oberlin College, Oberlin Public Library and the Oberlin City Schools, 2010/11.