FALL FILMS CROSSING BORDERS/PUSHING BOUNDARIES

Tuesday, November 29, 3:30pm-6:00 pm
Audio Visual Room, A309
Discussion after the film will be led by Prof. Jerilyn Fisher
Released in August 2011, The Help is already surrounded by Oscar buzz! Based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett, the film takes a provocative and inspiring look at what happens when a southern town’s racial boundary is crossed by three courageous, fed-up women. The story probes how social change can be forged through their secretive, risky writing project and friendship in pre-civil rights Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.