Book & Film: American Biopics and 20th Century Political Life

Conversation group with d.a.i. teacher Scott Stelle.

Veranstaltungdetails

Biopics that dramatize the lives of public figures follow the codes of biographers and historians, who are themselves not free to invent the life story of their portrayed figures, though they may emphasize and omit certain events in the portrayal of a life. Join us in a multimedia exploration of three controversial, streetwise, and highly ambitious figures who rose from poverty to positions of leadership in organized crime, the labor movement, and the civil rights movement.

Hollywood’s reconstruction of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (1906–1947), James Hoffa (1913–1975) and Malcolm X (1925–1965) were released within months of each other and decades after the peak of their public influence. And all three cultural icons share a common mystery: namely, who really killed Bugsy? Malcolm? And Jimmy Hoffa?

4.10.: Dean Jennings, We Only Kill Each Other (1967: film: Bugsy, 1991)
8.11.: Robert F. Kenedy, The Enemy Within(1960: film: Hoffa, 1992)
6.12.: Malcom X with Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcom X(1965: film: Malcom X, 1992)

In English

Admission: free
Location: d.a.i. library

Veranstaltungsort: d.a.i. library