[Libri] Love & Books: Thursday

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Dear Collegaues,

Please join us for the next installment in our "Love and Books" Film Series:


I.

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
FPH EAST LECTURE HALL
THURSDAY, 8 APRIL 2004

7:00 PM

³BEAUMARCHAIS THE SCOUNDREL²

 
Adventures of Pierre-Auguste-Caron de Beaumarchais ‹playwright (³The
Marriage of Figaro,² ³The Barber of Seville²), judge, inventor, diplomat,
playboy, spy, arms dealer who assisted the American rebels‹between the
American and French Revolutions.

(French, 1997; 100 min.)

Dir. Edouard Molinaro

Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain, Michel, Serrault, Jacques
Weber, Michel Piccoli.

Nominated for 4 César Awards, including Best Actor (Lucchini)



II.
COMING ATTRACTIONS:

€ 22 APRIL, 7:00 PM, FPH ELH:
The Independent Against the World?

Screening of "You've Got Mail," and discussion with Nat Herold (Amherst
Books) on the fate of the independent bookseller in the age of chains,
megamalls, and online retailing


€ 29 APRIL  7:00 PM
Emily Dickinson Hall 4
THE OPEN SEMINAR

Talk by Simone Davis (Five College Women's Studies Research Center)

"How to Squash a Tell-All, 1933." As an ad man, Christian inspiration writer
and Republican politician, Bruce Barton proved one of the most influential
Americans of his era. His triumphs throw into stark relief the clamorous
tragedies of Frances King, a would-be author, ever-voluble fighter in her
own doomed cause, employee-mentee to Barton, his lover, and then his
blackmailer.  My project is about the printed word. . . and the powers that
keep some words from ever seeing print. It's about a scandal that simmered
rather than boiled, about who can use publicity for gain and who cannot.
Moving between the juridical, journalistic, commercial and publishing
worlds, this small and seamy tale illuminates the links between spin and
suppression. In the present political and cultural climate, where exposure
and damage control dagger fight daily in the public eye, we find ourselves
living with Barton's legacy on more fronts than one.



Thank you.
We look forward to seeing you.

Jim Wald
(for the Hampshire College Center for the Book)


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