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	*[http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/mai68/ May Events Archive of Documents]		*[http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/mai68/ May Events Archive of Documents]
	*[https://www.marxists.org/history/france/may-1968/index.htm Paris May-June 1968 Archive] at [[marxists.org]]		*[https://www.marxists.org/history/france/may-1968/index.htm Paris May-June 1968 Archive] at [[marxists.org]]
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		+	==References==

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 him for the way he sets up the women in the interviews, more or
 less tells them how to reply, and then is always surprised when they
-aren't as interesting as he'd hoped they'd be. The woman's-voice-as-super-ego is similar in function to the woman's voice that comes on
+aren't as interesting as he'd hoped they'd be. The woman's-voice-as-super-ego is similar in function to the woman's voice that comes on over the image of the Palestinian woman in ''Ici et ailleurs'', accusing
 Godard of having chosen a young, beautiful woman for the scene
 and having said nothing about it: "It's a small step from this kind of
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 relation for men to that excessive potency. That a masochistic
 fantasy is at work here can be seen most conspicuously at the end of
-Every Man for Himself when the mise-en-scene requires the "Paul
+''Every Man for Himself'' when the mise-en-scene requires the "Paul
 Godard" character to die under (as a result of?) the disaffected gazes
 of the women in his life.

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 the male narrator says of the interviewer and Camille:
-:I don't believe he wants to get an image of her-whatever one might think-or a
+:I don't believe he wants to get an image of her-whatever one might think-or a sound. He's simply sending out a signal and waiting to see what happens when the signal reaches her. Often it reaches her and conveys nothing.
 And, at another point:
 :Despite evidence to the contrary, the reporter is not asking real questions . Nor
-does the child give real answers.
+:Despite evidence to the contrary, the reporter is not asking real questions. Nor does the child give real answers.
 If one doesn't start with pre-given questions and answers, and if a
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 so when both are known "personalities"; everyone, however,
 in an interview situation is a "personality" even if only for the time
-of the interview. ('''When Dick Cavett interviews, for example, Jean-Luc Godard''', it is supposed to be as interesting to us that the interviewer
+of the interview. ('''When Dick Cavett interviews, for example, Jean-Luc Godard''', it is supposed to be as interesting to us that the interviewer is Cavett as that the person interviewed is Godard. The spectacle
 of the interview is just as much our interest in watching
 Cavett's interviewing skills being challenged by a "difficult" personality
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 voice-over, during the interview, comments on the vision and
 desire of the interviewer:
 :He's still there, facing her, and the night is breaking. As she neglected to tell him earlier, at the beginning of the program, she didn't want to show her bottom, he didn't make a point of it, so that now he can only see part of her shoulders and a mass of thick blond hair.

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 =May 1968 Events in France=
 The volatile period of [[civil unrest]] in [[France]] during May 1968 was punctuated by demonstrations and massive [[general strike]]s as well as the [[Occupation (protest)|occupation]] of universities and [[Occupation of factories|factories]] across France. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire [[economy of France]] to a virtual halt.<ref name="SitInt12"/> The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared [[civil war]] or [[French Revolution (disambiguation)|revolution]]; the national government itself momentarily ceased to function after President [[Charles de Gaulle]] secretly fled France for a few hours. The protests spurred an artistic movement, with songs, imaginative graffiti, posters, and slogans.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deljehier.levillage.org/mai_68.htm |title=Mai 68 - 40 ans déjà |publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/western-art/museum-establishment-and-contemporary-art-politics-artistic-display-france-after-1968?format=PB|title=The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968|last=DeRoo|first=Rebecca J.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2014|isbn=9781107656918|location=|pages=}}</ref>
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 ===Student strikes===
-[[File:SorbonneParis041130.JPG|thumb|Public square of [[Sorbonne (building)|the Sorbonne]], in the Latin Quarter of Paris]]
+<gallery mode="packed" heights=400px>
 Following months of conflicts between students and authorities at the Nanterre campus of the [[University of Paris]] (now [[Paris Nanterre University]]), the administration shut down the university on 2 May 1968.<ref>Rotman, pp. 10&ndash;11; Damamme, Gobille, Matonti & Pudal, ed., p. 190.</ref> Students at the Sorbonne campus of the University of Paris (today [[Sorbonne University]]) in Paris met on 3 May to protest against the closure and the threatened expulsion of several students at Nanterre.<ref>Damamme, Gobille, Matonti & Pudal, ed., p. 190.</ref> On Monday, 6 May, the national student union, the [[Union Nationale des Étudiants de France]] (UNEF)—still the largest student union in France today—and the union of university teachers called a march to protest against the police invasion of Sorbonne. More than 20,000 students, teachers and supporters marched towards the Sorbonne, still sealed off by the police, who charged, wielding their batons, as soon as the marchers approached. While the crowd dispersed, some began to create barricades out of whatever was at hand, while others threw paving stones, forcing the police to retreat for a time. The police then responded with tear gas and charged the crowd again. Hundreds more students were arrested.
-{{multiple image
+<gallery mode="packed" heights=400px>
- | direction = vertical
+File:Graffito_in_University_of_Lyon_classroom_during_student_revolt_of_1968.jpg|alt=Graffiti in a classroom|Graffiti in a classroom
- | width = 180
+File:University_of_Lyon_Law_School_with_graffiti_June_1968.jpg|alt="Vive De Gaulle" is one of the graffiti on this Law School building.|"Vive De Gaulle" is one of the graffiti on this Law School building.
- | footer = [[University of Lyon]] during student occupation, May–June 1968
+</gallery>
 High school student unions spoke in support of the riots on 6 May. The next day, they joined the students, teachers and increasing numbers of young workers who gathered at the [[Arc de Triomphe]] to demand that:
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 ===Workers join the students===
 In the following days, workers began occupying factories, starting with a sit-down strike at the [[Sud Aviation]] plant near the city of [[Nantes]] on 14 May, then another strike at a [[Renault]] parts plant near [[Rouen]], which spread to the Renault manufacturing complexes at Flins in the Seine Valley and the Paris suburb of [[Boulogne-Billancourt]]. Workers had occupied roughly fifty factories by 16 May, and 200,000 were on strike by 17 May. That figure snowballed to two million workers on strike the following day and then ten million, or roughly two-thirds of the French workforce, on strike the following week.
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 ==Legacy==
 May 1968 is an important reference point in French politics, representing for some the possibility of liberation and for others the dangers of anarchy.<ref name="Erlanger 2008">{{cite news |last=Erlanger |first=Steven |title=May 1968 - a watershed in French life |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/world/europe/29iht-france.4.12440504.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all |accessdate=31 August 2012 |newspaper=New York Times |date=29 April 2008}}</ref> For some, May 1968 meant the end of traditional collective action and the beginning of a new era to be dominated mainly by the so-called [[new social movements]].<ref>Staricco, Juan Ignacio (2012) https://www.scribd.com/doc/112409042/The-French-May-and-the-Roots-of-Postmodern-Politics</ref>
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 *Staricco, Juan Ignacio. ''[https://www.scribd.com/doc/94247008/The-French-May-and-the-Shift-of-Paradigm-of-Collective-Action The French May and the Shift of Paradigm of Collective Action]''.
 *[[Alain Touraine|Touraine, Alain]]. ''The May Movement: Revolt and Reform''.
 ===Archival collections===
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 *[http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/mai68/ May Events Archive of Documents]
 *[https://www.marxists.org/history/france/may-1968/index.htm Paris May-June 1968 Archive] at [[marxists.org]]

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 ===Video games===
 *The 2010 game ''Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker'' had a briefing file that described the May 1968 protests and their influence on the character Cécile Cosima Caminades, a Frenchwoman.
 ==Further reading==

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 Ahidjo, relying on a pervasive internal security apparatus, outlawed all political parties but his own in 1966. He successfully suppressed the continuing UPC rebellion, capturing the last important rebel leader in 1970. On 28 March 1970 Ahidjo renewed his mandate as the supreme magistracy; [[Solomon Tandeng Muna]]  became Vice President. In 1972, a new constitution replaced the federation with a unitary state called the '''United Republic of Cameroon'''.
 On 30 June 1975 [[Paul Biya]] was appointed vice president. Ahidjo resigned as president in 1982 and was constitutionally succeeded by his [[Prime Minister]], [[Paul Biya]], a career official. Ahidjo later regretted his choice of successors, but his supporters failed to overthrow Biya in a [[Cameroonian Palace Guard Revolt|1984 coup]]. Biya won single-candidate elections in 1983 and 1984 when the country was again named the '''Republic of Cameroon'''.  Biya has remained in power, winning flawed multiparty elections in 1992, 1997, 2004 and 2011. His [[Cameroon People's Democratic Movement]] (CPDM) party holds a sizeable majority in the legislature.
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 On August 15, 1984, [[Lake Monoun]] exploded in a [[limnic eruption]] that released [[carbon dioxide]], [[Asphyxia|suffocating]] 37 people to death. On August 21, 1986, another limnic eruption at [[Lake Nyos]] killed as many as 1,800 people and 3,500 livestock.  The two disasters are the only recorded instances of limnic eruptions.
-In May 2014, in the wake of the [[Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping]], Presidents [[Paul Biya]] of Cameroon and [[Idriss Déby]] of [[Chad]] announced they were waging war on [[Boko Haram]], and deployed troops to the Nigerian border.<ref>{{Cite web
+In May 2014, in the wake of the [[Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping]], Presidents [[Paul Biya]] of Cameroon and [[Idriss Déby]] of [[Chad]] announced they were waging war on [[Boko Haram]], and deployed troops to the Nigerian border.<ref>http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/cameroon-chad-deploy-troops-fight-boko-haram</ref>
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 Although the "inappropriateness" of the interviewer's questions to
 the children serves to bring into relief our received ideas about childhood
-childhood, it is also disconcerting in another, deeper sense. We have clear 47
+childhood, it is also disconcerting in another, deeper sense. We have clear
 linguistic and social conventions governing the way adults speak to
 children; we simply do not speak to them in the same manner that