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Posted: 1/1/0001
POLITICS OF U.S. OCCUPATION (rconcep1.blogspot.com)
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Politics of U.S. Occupation features Professors Noam Chomsky (MIT), Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College), Nerissa Balce (Stony Brook University) and Kenneth Bauzon (St. Joseph s College) who analyze the 1899 Philippine-American War in order to rediscover its historical continuities to post-9/11 America.
This 30-minute documentary was submitted during the summer of 2010 in fulfillment of the thesis film graduation requirement of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film and Electronic Media at American University School of Communication-Washington DC. It was submitted in the Master s Portfolio Seminar class of Prof. John Douglass. The thesis film adviser was Prof. Russell Williams. The thesis committee members were Professors Maggie Stogner, Maria Floro and Robin Broad.
The use of third party audio-visual images and excerpts in POLITICS OF U.S. OCCUPATION was guided by the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use published by American University-Center for Social Media website: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use
SYNOPSIS
The purpose of the half-hour documentary, Politics of U.S. Occupation, was to challenge the historical awareness of the audience as it explores the following:
Part 1 argues the idea that the Philippine-American war of 1899 (and not World War II) is the foundation of Philippine-U.S. relations. The Part 1 also visually shows footage of World War II combat and deaths that were just as traumatic as the images of the Philippine American war.
Part 2 describes the idea that the Philippine-American war of 1899 was characterized by systematic use of torture (despite official U.S. denials). One of the torture techniques used in the Philippines was the water cure - better known now as water boarding.
Part 3 explains the idea that the brutality of the Philippine-American war was not much different fr