It’s a two-hour session. It begins (it seems) with a film showing, The Forgotten Faces (1961). Then Jim Welsh presents on Images of Budapest. Ken Nolley ends the session with a paper on Fahrenheit 9/11. In between I’m doing a paper on The Fog of War.

And here we go! Ack.

Later edit: What a privilege it was to be on this panel. Jim (and Ken, in later discussion) did a great job of exploring the fascinating work of Peter Watkins. Ken’s paper was a deeply thoughtful and inspiring look at the responses to Michael Moore’s latest film. And the response to my paper was thoughtful, sharp, and encouraging, even (especially?) when the discussants took issue with some of my points. I’ve got to be careful here, or soon I’ll be insisting that academia can actually work the way it’s supposed to….

Thanks to everyone involved in this session for a splendid experience. It was as seminar through and through, planting seeds for fruitful investigation in many directions.