Content Advisories for Spring 2024
Just a note: this advisory is offered as a guide for our audience. It is subject to the memory of the curator and is, as a result imperfect. We research where information is available and seek out the counsel of filmmakers and distributors. We apologize for errors of omission and any distress it causes. We are always striving to improve and welcome feedback from our community. Please feel free to contact anna_feder@emerson.edu with any comments or concerns.
The following screenings have content advisories. Hold your mouse on the logos for details regarding the advisories:
![Sexual Assault / Rape](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Sexual-Assault-2-150x150-1.png)
![Drug use/abuse](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Drugs-150x150-1.png)
![Mental Illness / Suicide](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/mental-illness-150x150-1.png)
![Bigotry](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Bigotry-150x150-1.png)
![Violence](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Violence-150x150-1.png)
![Harm to a child, elderly person, or animal](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/child-abuse.png)
Thursday, January 25th Saltburn
![Cocaine use and binge drinking shown. Reference to drug dealing/addiction, alcoholism, and rehab.](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Drugs-150x150-1.png)
![Deaths occur off-screen although dead bodies are seen. A character wraps their fist up before punching a mirror. Mention of people falling out of windows to their deaths.](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Violence-150x150-1.png)
![Aftermath of completed suicide shown (someone dead in bathtub with a razor blade next to them and blood everywhere), References to mental health, bulimia, and addiction, though these aren't explored in any great depth.](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/mental-illness-150x150-1.png)
![An unconscious bed-ridden character who has various tubes connected to them, has one pulled out of their throat and proceeds to choke and gasp for air before dying.](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/child-abuse.png)
Thursday, February 28th
Israelism
![pervasive bigotry toward Palestinians is discussed and shown throughout the film](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Bigotry-150x150-1.png)
![The premise of this film is about the violence perpetrated on Palestinians by the Israeli military and citizens. This is both shown and discussed throughout the film. Some of this violence is directed at children and elders](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Violence-150x150-1.png)
![The premise of this film is about the violence perpetrated on Palestinians by the Israeli military and citizens. This is both shown and discussed throughout the film. Some of this violence is directed at children and elders](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/child-abuse.png)
Thursday, February 8th
So Unreal
![consistent discussion of mental health](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2024/01/image-9.png)
Thursday, February 15th
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
![discussion of misogyny and the degradation of women throughout](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Bigotry-150x150-1.png)
![violence toward women discussed throughout](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Violence-150x150-1.png)
Thursday, February 22nd
Unidentified Objects
Thursday, February 29th
Bad Press
Thursday, March 7th
Sacred Nations: Short Works by Contemporary Indigenous Storytellers
Thursday, March 21st
The Persian Version
![Brief suicidal ideation](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/mental-illness-150x150-1.png)
![Guns pulled out to settle a score, but violence is avoided](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Violence-150x150-1.png)
![bloody and emotional delivery of a stillborn baby](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Sexual-Assault-2-150x150-1.png)
![Implication that a supporting character has a drug problem at one point](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Drugs-150x150-1.png)
Thursday, March 28th
King Coal
Thursday, April 4th
Stopmotion
Thursday, April 11th
Queendom
Thursday, April 18th
American Fiction
![references to an off-screen death by suicide.](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/mental-illness-150x150-1.png)
![The premise of the film deals with stereotypes of black men and women. The film is filled with talk and depiction of these stereotypes and the bigotry associated with them. Also, homophobic bigotry is discussed.](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Bigotry-150x150-1.png)
![Monk’s brother Clifford struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, discussed and shown](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Drugs-150x150-1.png)
![Monk’s mother has Alzheimer’s and there are a few occasions where she goes missing or there is a fear of her being injured.](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Sexual-Assault-2-150x150-1.png)
![a few scenes of imagined violence, including gun violence](https://websites.emerson.edu/brightlights/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2023/09/Violence-150x150-1.png)