{"id":3891,"date":"2022-10-05T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3891"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:41:10","slug":"riotsville-usa-screening-and-qa","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/event\/riotsville-usa-screening-and-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Riotsville, USA: Screening and Q+A"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) and the Center for Africana Studies are co-sponsoring a Q+A after the Baltimore premier of Riotsville, USA<\/a><\/em>, featuring the film\u2019s director Sierra Pettengill and writer Tobi Haslett, as well as JHU\u2019s Stuart Schrader, who consulted on the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riotsville, USA<\/em> is a documentary about the U.S. government\u2019s response to civil disorders in 1967, based on archival footage from the period: Welcome to Riotsville, USA\u2014a point in American history when the nation\u2019s rulers\u2014politicians, bureaucrats, police\u2014were faced with the mounting militancy of the late-1960s, and did everything possible to win the war in the streets. Using training footage of Army-built model towns called \u201cRiotsvilles\u201d where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, in addition to nationally broadcast news media, director Sierra Pettengill connects the stagecraft of \u201claw and order\u201d to the real violence of state practice. Recovering an obscured history whose effects have shaped the present in ways both insidious and explosive, Riotsville, USA<\/em> is a poetic and furious reflection on the rebellions of the 1960s\u2014and the machine that worked to destroy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent review<\/a> of Riotsville, USA<\/em>, by Bench Ansfield, suggests \u201cThe documentary works so well in part because Pettengill allows the state to speak in its own words, which bristle with cold, technocratic disdain. The footage is entirely archival, and only state and newsreel images are used (though these are mediated through Haslett\u2019s piercing narration). Riotsville<\/em> offers a sustained visualization of state panic, a theater in which the authorities playact their paranoia: Black radicals inciting a riot among white antiwar protesters; snipers lurking on rooftops; police and soldiers learning what to fear and how to handle their fright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A limited number of free tickets<\/strong> are available for JHU undergraduate students and RIC-affiliated grad students. To request a ticket, please fill out this form<\/a> by 10\/11. <\/p>\n\n\n

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