Jennifer Tucker

One Night in 2012, directed by Angela Mason. Co-produced by Rogan Productions and the BBC. 2016, 98 minutes. Contact: https://twitter.com/RoganProduction. Webpage: https://www.asnconvention.com/one-night-in-2012. Shown at the ASN 2017 World Convention

when one of them attacked Kourounis for filming. The filming was done in Athens in the spring of 2014, when Golden Dawn was preparing for both regional and European elections. By that time, dozens of Golden Dawn members and MPs, including its leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, had been arrested after the assassination of the musician Pavlos Fyssas in September 2013. Charges against them range from attempted murder and assault to a creation of a criminal organization. At the time of writing, the trial of 69 defendants is still ongoing. As Kourounis notes, the incarceration of its leaders was turned into an asset. At Golden Dawn’s pre-electoral gatherings, Mihaloliakos addresses his supporters from jail by telephone as a martyr and a hero. In presenting the story of Golden Dawn’s rise, Kourounis unravels different life-stories that are closely intertwined with the story of the party: the rise of a regional leader, a perspective of a female party member, a take on the events from an ex-member, comments from a non-ideological affiliated voter, words of a victim of the party’s, an interview with an anti-fascist, a take on the story by a foreigner. The documentary’s central figure is Harris, the organization’s local leader in the Alimos district, a wealthy suburb in southern Athens. Harris strives to show that he is an educated man who loves history, who has done charity work in Africa, who is a true patriot. However, in a twist of fate, Harris forgets that he is wearing a microphone at some point and is recorded instructing his companions that were going to be interviewed: “We are not racists, we are nationalists,” “History will judge the holocaust and will show what is real and what is not,” and “You will remain moderate, but without betraying our principles.” Harris was elected to the municipal council in May 2014. Since the time that Kourounis’ documentary was filmed, Golden Dawn has been established as the third largest political party in Greece. A high percentage of Greeks believe in Golden Dawn and mistrust “the system,” despite the fact that, in Kourounis’ words, “Golden Dawn never hid its ideas.” And Golden Dawn: A Personal Affair is one of the most comprehensive documentaries that recounts how this came to be.

Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision

Abstract In 1712, the English naturalist Mark Catesby (1682–1749) traveled to Williamsburg, Virginia, to observe the natural productions of the southern colonies of North America — in his words, to satisfy a ‘passionate desire of viewing as well the Animal as Vegetable productions in their Native Countries; which were Strangers to England.’ Catesbys close observations and direct representations of plant and animal life during two trips to the southern American colonies and the West Indies between 1712 and 1726 formed the basis for his monumental study, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, completed in 1747. The first major illustrated natural history of the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, The Natural Historyassumed immediate importance as a reference point for British and Continental naturalists who were trying to order the natural world according to eighteenth-century taxonomic systems. The publications magnificent plates and verbal descriptions of the flora and fauna of the New World were a source of inspiration to American artist-naturalists such as William Bartram and John James Audubon. It became the foundation of British and American nature illustration in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.