[RSCT] Films about Genocide? Films about Hegemony?
mbrady22 at cfl.rr.com
mbrady22 at cfl.rr.com
Fri Aug 29 15:20:46 EDT 2008
---- Duane Campbell <campd at csus.edu> wrote:
> I think an interesting addition would be a film to cover the Great
> Hunger in Ireland 1846-1848. It certainly was genocide...
I'm inclined to think that in this case "genocide" isn't an accurate word. It implies intent to eliminate a population, when the original immediate cause was over-reliance on a single food source -- "lazy-hill" production of potatoes.
Marion Brady
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