Diversity Film Series begins Sept. 22 at Elizabethtown College

Movies address race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic stratification, culture, politics

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (09/12/2014)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College hosts the 2014-2015 Diversity Film Series featuring closed-captioned movies addressing race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic stratification, culture and politics.

All films are free and are shown at 7 p.m. in the College's Gibble Auditorium. Following each film is a discussion led by a member of the College's faculty.

The first film Promised Land, shown Monday, Sept. 22, is part of the College's Social Justice Week. The film, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon and Hal Holbrook, follows hydraulic fracturing and two corporate salespeople who visit a rural town in an attempt to buy drilling rights from the local residents.

Discussant is Dr. David R. Bowne, assistant professor of biology.

Pink Ribbons Inc., is shown as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Week Monday, Oct. 20. This National Film Board of Canada documentary, based on the 2006 book Pink Ribbons Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Samantha King, associate professor of kinesiology and health studies at Queen's University, explores how, for the millions of dollars raised for breast cancer research by the Pink Ribbon Campaign, not enough money goes to prevention or exploring possible environmental factors causing cancer.

Discussants are Dr. Linda M Leimbach, lecturer in occupational therapy, and Dr. Rita Shah, assistant professor of sociology.

The final film for the fall semester is Black Robe. This film is shown as part of National Native American Heritage Month Monday, Nov. 17. Adapted from a novel of the same name by Irish Canadian author Brian Moore, the film tells the story of the first contacts between the Huron Indians of Quebec and the Jesuit missionaries from France. The film has been praised as one of the most meticulously researched representations of indigenous life put on film. Notably, the film includes dialogue in the Cree, Mohawk and Algonquin languages.

Discussants are Dr. Robert Wheelersburg, professor of anthropology, and Dr. Fletcher McClellan, Dean of Faculty and professor of political science.

Contact: Jean-Paul Benowitz at benowitzj@etown.edu or 717-361-111

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