The Global Game » Cinema & Visual Arts http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog Soccer as a second language Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 2007-2009 admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) posts 1440 football, soccer, world cup, women soccer, world football, world soccer, fifa, football culture Interviews on world soccer culture. Interviews on world soccer culture. The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com No no http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg The Global Game http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 20 years later, remembering East German film and football http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/04/cinema-20-years-later-remembering-east-german-film-and-football/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/04/cinema-20-years-later-remembering-east-german-film-and-football/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:28:00 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1975 Ostalgie (“Eastalgia”) by screening 14 films from or concerning the former East Germany. With film listing and podcast » Related posts:
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]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/04/cinema-20-years-later-remembering-east-german-film-and-football/feed/ 1 The Zen of Mathare: brew changaa, carry water, play soccer http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-the-zen-of-mathare-brew-liquor-carry-water-play-soccer/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-the-zen-of-mathare-brew-liquor-carry-water-play-soccer/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:06:22 +0000 Gwendolyn Oxenham http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=988 Gwendolyn Oxenham's diaries supporting The Soccer Project, a documentary about pickup soccer worldwide. Related posts:
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]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-footballs-happy-existence-inside-the-paris-museum/feed/ 0 Cinema | Attempting Jewish-Arab reconciliation in a 10-minute game http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-attempting-jewish-arab-reconciliation-in-a-10-minute-game/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/11/cinema-attempting-jewish-arab-reconciliation-in-a-10-minute-game/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:15:36 +0000 Gwendolyn Oxenham http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=947 Gwendolyn Oxenham's diaries supporting an in-process documentary film, The Soccer Project, about four recent college graduates and their pursuit of improvisational soccer matches around the world. Related posts:
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