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-# Protagonism 
  
-## Texts 
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-  * Vaclav Havel, "[The Power of the Powerless](http://vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=clanky&val=72_aj_clanky.html&typ=HTML)" (1978) 
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-Choose between one of the following pairs of films (and a critical essay) with an eye to how agency is expressed.  
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-First, resistance to slavery: 
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-  * _Lincoln_, directed by Steven Spielberg (2012) 
-  * _Django Unchained_, directed by Quentin Tarantino (2012) 
-  * Adolph Reed, "[The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/10/adolph-reed-black-liberation-django-lincoln-selma-glory/)," _Jacobin_ 18 (Summer 2015) 
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-Second, labor organizing: 
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-  * _On the Waterfront_, directed by Elia Kazan (1954) 
-  * _The Salt of the Earth_, directed by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders (1954) 
-  * Enid Sefcovica, "[Cultural memory and the cultural legacy of individualism and community in two classic films about labor unions](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07393180216562)," _Critical Studies in Media Communication_ 19, no. 3 (2002) 
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