Dunno why suggesting, but maybe you'd dig some of Su Friedrich's weird little personal documentaries. The best ones are Sink Or Swim (this, I'd say, being one of the best documentaries ever made), The Ties That Bind, and Rules Of The Road (First Comes Love is pretty interesting too (And so is Damned If You Don't, and it also has some lesbian sex in it, so I guess that could also be incentive to watch it, heheh))
His class causes me physical pain. I feel like I am punched when I am listening to him. The defense he gives for all this is he's not trying to teach us about art or "appreciating great films" he's trying to teach us to "interrogate culture and ideology". That also pisses me off and pains me.
He's completely missing the point of art in general.
By just talking about movements and genre-distinctions and culture and ideologies you can't really get anywhere when talking about art. You can get lots of places by talking about things created corporately like reality TV and ads that way. But it's insulting to say that America's Next Top Model and De Sica's masterpiece were made under "similar ideological conditions". De Sica wasn't trying to just "represent reality" and "be socially conscious" he was just honestly expressing himself. GodDAMMIT.
Yeah. I'm thinking of just suggesting damn near everything I an think of ways to back up... A Woman Under The Influence and Faces just because they are pretty damn "Realistic". Opening Night for the whole self-reflexive aspect it has. I can't think of any other specific ways to back up suggesting them though. Can you think of any ways to make it seem compelling to show his stuff? I suck at sounding convincing. Heh.
Also will probably suggest Harmony Korine's Gummo and Jon Jost's Last Chants For A Slow Dance.
He was relating the idea to Bicycle Thieves and how as much as the neorealists and stuff wanted to make some kind of radical new cinema, you can't escape the "bourgeois notion individuality" in something like this. He spoke of it as if the concept of a singular individual was concocted sometime in the mid 1800s.
Also talked about how that television reality show COPS was created specifically to make people TOO AFRAID TO BREAK THE LAW and how it was made to destroy minorities and stuff.
Next week we're watching reality TV shows (Jersey Shore, Amierica's Next Top Model, Canada's Next Top Model) and relating them to how "realism" is presented compared to Bicycle Thieves. He's asking for suggestions, so I'm probably gonna go on some kind of rant to show some John Cassavetes.
It's a damn interesting album with some great heartfelt comedy filled with angry verve and some interesting heartfelt interludes.
Glad you like it too. :3
I've been meaning to write an angry "appeal" for more of an art related class over a culture related one, but I've just been afraid of doing it and afraid that my argument didn't sound right so I've been writing and re-writing my little petition/appeal/plea for a week now. Because there are other students who are just as angry as me. Then again, there are just as many who I feel are brainwashed by this garbage just because he's in a position of power.
I actually did that last week; I don't think anyone even checks the damn thing because no one has brought it up yet! Damn, drama can be pretty fun. (although I did upload a picture of a bloody wolf head to the "let's talk about photography" wiki he made in connection to John Waters's "Pecker" and he talked about that in relation to Roland Barthes (argh, so much bullshit)
There has to be. at least one for lecture-based courses. or maybe that's just what cultural studies does to people.
tonight is reality-tv-screenings. argh. ARGH. I want an aneurysm so i don't have to go.
aaaaand here's how it went down http://mhis206.wikispaces.com/Reality+things+suggestions
Dunno why suggesting, but maybe you'd dig some of Su Friedrich's weird little personal documentaries. The best ones are Sink Or Swim (this, I'd say, being one of the best documentaries ever made), The Ties That Bind, and Rules Of The Road (First Comes Love is pretty interesting too (And so is Damned If You Don't, and it also has some lesbian sex in it, so I guess that could also be incentive to watch it, heheh))
As I said to Elston: It's pretty hilarious when it isn't happening to you.
His class causes me physical pain. I feel like I am punched when I am listening to him. The defense he gives for all this is he's not trying to teach us about art or "appreciating great films" he's trying to teach us to "interrogate culture and ideology". That also pisses me off and pains me.
He's completely missing the point of art in general.
By just talking about movements and genre-distinctions and culture and ideologies you can't really get anywhere when talking about art. You can get lots of places by talking about things created corporately like reality TV and ads that way. But it's insulting to say that America's Next Top Model and De Sica's masterpiece were made under "similar ideological conditions". De Sica wasn't trying to just "represent reality" and "be socially conscious" he was just honestly expressing himself. GodDAMMIT.
Yeah. I'm thinking of just suggesting damn near everything I an think of ways to back up... A Woman Under The Influence and Faces just because they are pretty damn "Realistic". Opening Night for the whole self-reflexive aspect it has. I can't think of any other specific ways to back up suggesting them though. Can you think of any ways to make it seem compelling to show his stuff? I suck at sounding convincing. Heh.
Also will probably suggest Harmony Korine's Gummo and Jon Jost's Last Chants For A Slow Dance.
He was relating the idea to Bicycle Thieves and how as much as the neorealists and stuff wanted to make some kind of radical new cinema, you can't escape the "bourgeois notion individuality" in something like this. He spoke of it as if the concept of a singular individual was concocted sometime in the mid 1800s.
Also talked about how that television reality show COPS was created specifically to make people TOO AFRAID TO BREAK THE LAW and how it was made to destroy minorities and stuff.
Next week we're watching reality TV shows (Jersey Shore, Amierica's Next Top Model, Canada's Next Top Model) and relating them to how "realism" is presented compared to Bicycle Thieves. He's asking for suggestions, so I'm probably gonna go on some kind of rant to show some John Cassavetes.
Holy hell the Tarkovsky quote about Chaplin. That man is the most amazing man (they both are).
Everything he writes I find so damn uplifting. I want to hug that bastard.
Heheh, thanks! x3
I didn't realise.
It's a damn interesting album with some great heartfelt comedy filled with angry verve and some interesting heartfelt interludes.
Glad you like it too. :3
(psst-- Rant in E Minor is there)
Everything you just said:
NOTED.
thank you.
It's pretty MANLY music too. Heheh.
When Trout Mask Replica becomes an "easy, enjoyable listen" you know that Scaruffi has now devoured your soul. =P
I've been meaning to write an angry "appeal" for more of an art related class over a culture related one, but I've just been afraid of doing it and afraid that my argument didn't sound right so I've been writing and re-writing my little petition/appeal/plea for a week now. Because there are other students who are just as angry as me. Then again, there are just as many who I feel are brainwashed by this garbage just because he's in a position of power.
I actually did that last week; I don't think anyone even checks the damn thing because no one has brought it up yet! Damn, drama can be pretty fun. (although I did upload a picture of a bloody wolf head to the "let's talk about photography" wiki he made in connection to John Waters's "Pecker" and he talked about that in relation to Roland Barthes (argh, so much bullshit)