[Peace] Fwd: SELLING DEMOCRACY: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1953 -- Sept. 24-26

Wed Sep 23 12:22:36 CDT 2009

A great opportunity to see short films from Marshall Plan era---banned for
60 years in the U.S.---and participate in good discussions.

Niloofar
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:44:50 -0500
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Subject: SELLING DEMOCRACY: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1953 -- Sept.
 24-26

*BANNED IN THE US for 60 YEARS!

SELLING DEMOCRACY
Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1953
*www.euc.illinois.edu/sellingdemocracy

<http://euc.illinois.edu/sellingdemocracy.html>*September 24-26, 2009
*Krannert Art Museum <http://www.kam.uiuc.edu/aboutus.cfm?show=location>
500 East Peabody Dr. (Room 62), Champaign

-- Radio interview: listen to the program curator Sandra Schulberg's
interview <http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/interview/focus090914a/> from
Monday, September 14th on WILL-AM 580 <http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/>
http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/interview/focus090914a/
<http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/interview/focus090914a/>-- Press
Release<http://euc.illinois.edu/pdf/SellingDemocracyrelease-FINAL.pdf>
[ <http://euc.illinois.edu/pdf/SellingDemocracyrelease-FINAL.pdf>
http://euc.illinois.edu/pdf/SellingDemocracyrelease-FINAL.pdf]
-- BBC Report on Selling
Democracy<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8032492.stm>
[ <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8032492.stm>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8032492.stm]

*BANNED IN THE USA for 60 YEARS!
*The European Recovery Program (ERP) - better known as the Marshall Plan -
relied on cinema to bring hope to European citizens after WWII. Short films
told the myriad stories of recovery in funny, entertaining and provocative
ways. ERP's European filmmakers had tremendous latitude, and they made
cartoons, mini dramas, satires, and newsreels. The nearly 300 ERP films did
their duty, and were then lost from view for over 60 years. Americans never
saw them at all, for they were banned in the U.S. under the 1948 Smith-Mundt
Act. Now that the ban has been lifted, they can be shown for the first time.
Marshall film historian Sandra Schulberg introduces each program.

*University of Illinois Welcomes Distinguished Guest SANDRA SCHULBERG for
Marshall Plan Film Series
*Sandra Schulberg has led the campaign to restore the Marshall Plan films
and exhibit them in the U.S. and abroad. Author of "Selling Democracy: Films
of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1953," she is filming interviews with all
surviving ERP filmmakers. Born in Paris, while her father, Stuart Schulberg,
served as Chief of the Marshall Plan Motion Picture Section, she graduated
from Swarthmore College, and is Adjunct Assistant Professor in Columbia
University's Graduate Film Division.
Schulberg is an accomplished movie producer and longtime advocate of
independent filmmakers. In 1979, she founded the IFP <http://www.ifp.org/>,
the nation's oldest and largest filmmakers' organization, and is creating a
comprehensive indie film archive. Download her extended
bio<http://euc.illinois.edu/doc/SandraSchulberg_2_page_bio.doc>(.doc).
[ <http://euc.illinois.edu/doc/SandraSchulberg_2_page_bio.doc>
http://euc.illinois.edu/doc/SandraSchulberg_2_page_bio.doc]

*PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Thursday, September 24 -- 5:15 - 7:30pm*
Marshall Film Shorts - Program 1 *"Out of the Ruins: Help is on the Way"
**Introduction and post-screening Q&A session with Sandra Schulberg.
*
*Friday, September 25 -- 5:15 - 7:30 pm*
Marshall Film Shorts - Program 2 *"Unity in Difference: The Road to the
European Union"
**Introduction and post-screening Q&A session with Sandra Schulberg.
Followed by reception (in the Link Gallery between the Krannert Art Museum
and the School of Art and Design)

**Saturday, September 26 -- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
*Marshall Film Shorts - Program 3 *"Public Diplomacy Techniques: From Art to
Ideology"
**Introduction by Sandra Schulberg and followed by:
**PANEL DISCUSSION: Selling Democracy -- Then and Now* (*4:00 - 6:00 pm)
*with S. Schulberg and UI Faculty: Anke
<http://www.germanic.uiuc.edu/people/pinkert>Pinkert<http://www.germanic.uiuc.edu/people/pinkert>(Germanic
Languages & Literatures), Lilya
Kaganovsky <http://www.slavic.uiuc.edu/people/lilya/> (Slavic Languages and
Literatures), Mark Leff <http://www.history.uiuc.edu/people/mleff/>(History)

*SPECIAL CINEMA STUDIES LECTURE:
*Sandra Schulberg will also give a* Special Cinema Studies Lecture: "Where
Are We & Where Are We Going? The Challenges of Making & Distributing
Independent Movies" *on *FRIDAY, September 25 at 1:30pm*., Lucy Ellis
Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (707 S. Matthews Avenue)

*Sponsored by the University of Illinois European Union
Center<http://www.euc.illinois.edu/>.

*Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, the
Unit in Cinema Studies, the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, and the
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

** Funded in part by the US Department of Education Title VI Grant.
**All films courtesy of Academy Film Archive
*
For more information:
euc.illinois.edu/sellingdemocracy<http://euc.illinois.edu/sellingdemocracy.html>
or contact Sebnem Ozkan at asozkan at illinois.edu; 217-244-0570

For background on the films of the Marshall Plan, see
www.sellingdemocracy.org and www.marshallfilms.org.

Sebnem Ozkan, Outreach Coordinator
European Union Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
324 International Studies Building, MC-429
910 S. Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 244-0570
Fax: (217) 333-6270
Email: asozkan at illinois.edu
Web: www.euc.illinois.edu

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