Brainwashing 101
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Brainwashing 101, directed by Evan Coyne Maloney and executive-produced by Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenberg, is a 46-minute documentary illustrating the political environments on three United States university campuses. The film examines the possible use of institutional mechanisms such as speech codes to punish students who express political views that are unpopular within academia. Brainwashing 101 includes comments from Glenn Reynolds, the founder of Instapundit and Greg Lukianoff, then the Director of Legal and Public Advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a civil liberties organization that was founded to protect academic freedom of students and professors.
The film premiered at the American Film Renaissance festival in Dallas on September 11, 2004 and was later shown at the Liberty Film Festival in Los Angeles, which named Brainwashing 101 one of the Top 10 Documentaries of 2004.
However, some consider the film to be controversial. In a letter [1] distributed prior to a campus screening of the film, Bucknell University professor Geoffrey Schneider, who appeared in the film, accused the filmmakers of manipulating him into appearing, selectively editing his statements in misleading ways, and misrepresenting events. Recent Bucknell student Charles Mitchell, who was mentioned in Schneider's letter, claims that there are several flaws in Schneider's criticisms of the film [2].
[edit] External links
- On the Fence Films
- Brainwashing 101
- Professor Geoffrey Schneider's criticisms of the film [3]; see also criticisms by the Bucknell Caucus for Economic Justice [4]
- Bucknell alumnus Charles Mitchell's response to Schneider's criticism [5]
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