Bulletin N° 690
Subject: Invitation to the Grenoble campus screening
of “Hearts and Minds” on Friday, April 1.
23 March 2016
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and
Friends of CEIMSA,
We are pleased to invite
you to the Grenoble University campus screening of Peter Davis’ award-winning documentary of the
causes and consequences of the War in Vietnam. This film will be shown on Friday,
1 April, at 3:30 p.m.
For more information
please see the announcement below.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor of American Studies
University of Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of American
Institutions and Social Movements
The University of California-San Diego
Hearts and Minds
Directed by Peter Davis
( V.O.)
Friday, 1 April
at
15h30
in
La Grande Salle des Colloques
l’Université Stendhal-Grenoble
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The
Vietnam War is considered to be a watershed in the contemporary history of the
United States. The growing anti-war movement, allied at the time with many other liberation
movements in North America, produced its opposite --a
counter-revolutionary movement of historical importance. This documentary, Hearts
and Minds, reveals the internal tensions during the Vietnam War in the
United States, and exposes some of the contradictions that are at the origins
of US policy today –both domestic and foreign—where neo-liberal ideology has
taken control of state institutions and corporate management.
This
film has attracted extensive critical attention, almost all of it either
glowingly positive or damningly negative, but rarely anything in between, with
reviewers tending to treat it either as a masterpiece in political documentary
film making or as a hatchet job anti-Vietnam War propaganda film, one that has
received "passionately opposing views".
Vietnam War films from the 1960s to the 1970s reflected deep divisions at home
over the war. Some reflected pro-war sentiments and vilified anti-war
protesters, while others stood at the opposite end and criticized government
officials and policies. "Hearts and Minds" was one of the first of
the latter to have been produced and released before the war's end in 1975.
For
more discussion of the counter-revolutionary movement in the US beginning in the last
quarter of the 20th Century, see Jane Mayer's discussion her new book,
Dark
Money at :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wULHP8oXxxg