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The Resource The Essential Blue Eyed, (online streaming)

The Essential Blue Eyed, (online streaming)

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Over the past 20 years, Jane Elliot, a former teacher in the midwest USA, has committed herself to leading a fight against prejudice, ignorance and racism in society. She continues to practise the same philosophy which she begun with her school class after Martin Luther King jun.'s death in 1968. Today her audience is much broader including teachers, students, firemen and even the complete staff of a bank. In her workshops, she divides people on the basis of two arbitrary physical properties - Blue or Brown Eyes. She declares the latter to be better and more intelligent and grants them privileges, privileges she denies to the blue eyed, deemed to be worse, less intelligent and lower qualified. For the first time, many white people become acquainted with the feeling of belonging to a condemned group which can never win. They experience the feeling of being discriminated against, in the same way that society today discriminates against women, people with a different skin colour or the disabled. In only 15 minutes, Jane Elliot manages to build up a realistic micro-cosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. As already known from the ill reputed Milgram experiment, even participants who knew the 'rules' are unable to remain uninvolved. What starts as a game turns into cruel reality which causes some participants emotions to errupt with unforseen intensity
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (1 video file, 96 min.)
Note
A Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag Production in 1996
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The Essential Blue Eyed
Title
The Essential Blue Eyed
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Over the past 20 years, Jane Elliot, a former teacher in the midwest USA, has committed herself to leading a fight against prejudice, ignorance and racism in society. She continues to practise the same philosophy which she begun with her school class after Martin Luther King jun.'s death in 1968. Today her audience is much broader including teachers, students, firemen and even the complete staff of a bank. In her workshops, she divides people on the basis of two arbitrary physical properties - Blue or Brown Eyes. She declares the latter to be better and more intelligent and grants them privileges, privileges she denies to the blue eyed, deemed to be worse, less intelligent and lower qualified. For the first time, many white people become acquainted with the feeling of belonging to a condemned group which can never win. They experience the feeling of being discriminated against, in the same way that society today discriminates against women, people with a different skin colour or the disabled. In only 15 minutes, Jane Elliot manages to build up a realistic micro-cosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. As already known from the ill reputed Milgram experiment, even participants who knew the 'rules' are unable to remain uninvolved. What starts as a game turns into cruel reality which causes some participants emotions to errupt with unforseen intensity
Cataloging source
NZEN
Characteristic
videorecording
Date time place
Originally produced by Denkmal in 1996
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Kanopy (Firm)
Runtime
95
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  • Elliott, Jane
  • Race discrimination
  • Segregation
  • Racism
  • Prejudices
  • Discrimination
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Label
The Essential Blue Eyed, (online streaming)
Link
Instantiates
Publication
Note
A Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag Production in 1996
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
kan1096605
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (1 video file, 96 min.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Medium for sound
other
Other physical details
digital, stereo., sound, color
Publisher number
1096605
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
sound
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
System control number
(OCoLC)920555311
System details
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Video recording format
other
Label
The Essential Blue Eyed, (online streaming)
Link
Publication
Note
A Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag Production in 1996
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
kan1096605
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (1 video file, 96 min.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Medium for sound
other
Other physical details
digital, stereo., sound, color
Publisher number
1096605
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
sound
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
System control number
(OCoLC)920555311
System details
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Video recording format
other

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