Description of assignment: Write a 600-800 word response that critically reflects on at least 2 films and 1 reading per unit.
Week 13: Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008)
FILM:
Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008) screened in class
If you missed it rent and watch it on You Tube etc.
READING:
Pick any ONE required reading (or the podcast no. 5) for the film Sleep Dealer
“Imagining the Future from the Margins” – Article
“Check Your Network Connection”: Cyberpunk Visions of Disembodied Labor in Sleep Dealer” by Michael Pitts: https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/20115
The Dystopian Boderlands of Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
Consumed by El Otro Lado – Alterations of the Neoliberl Self in Sleep Dealer
Undocumented Migration and Technologies of Resistance in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer and Digital Media
Podcast: “Sleep Dealer” and the Border Politics of Tech w/ Alex Rivera (Listen from 7 mins into the clip till end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQaKID6BzkY
EXTRA RESOURCES (OPTIONAL)
Short videos to provide examples of immigration injustice in the US
The Bracero Program (NBC News): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aye9c4SgPw
The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act – Robert Chang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K88pWCimZg
Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps – Densho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M
Week 14: FILMS & READING
Pick any one film from any of the subsections below to watch remotely for 29 April, 2024 (Week 14)
Films:
Who Is Dayani Cristal? (Directed by Marc Silver) [Free on Vimeo]
(English version): https://vimeo.com/136622440
Spanish version: https://vimeo.com/136746747
Which Way Home / Directed by: Rebecca Cammisa (1 hr 22 min)
Free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/56919/which-way-home?start=true&tracking=google-feed]
Reading: Required reading for either of the two films listed above (Who is Dayani Cristal and Which Way Home ):
Tracing borderscapes in three recent documentaries on central american migration.pdf
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