Tuesday, July 30

Final Project due Sept 3: 8 groups of 2.

DEMONSTRATE:  thought patterns related to social organization
Present film clips & together & discuss together Paper:  2.5 pgs per individual or 3.5 pgs together.


Ÿ  Hist’l drama: show some of “the Killer Apps”
Ÿ  Costume, hair,  Art direction  - as it reflects thought patterns of society
Ÿ  Dialog - revealing thought assumptions as well as "gesture" 
Ÿ  Male pov/Female pov
Ÿ  Stages of the life cycle - and corresponding thought patterns
Ÿ  Music - classical, romantic, modern, post modern, electronica 
Ÿ  Political movements - changing thought patterns
Ÿ  Technology Science - as it comes to encroach upon human lifeŸ
Ÿ  Nature
Ÿ  Mysticism
Ÿ Values
Ÿ Socialization into an "is" pattern




this list can grow . . . 
2001
two advances in consciousness:  how?  why?
Bad Boy
Race and the ghetto
Becket, Apocapalypto
Pageantry, order, tribal, middle ages
Ben Hur
Christianity, forgiveness, redemption
Blowup
change the p.o.v.
Contact
you "know" there is something "out there"
Crash
multiple ways to think & structure world
Do the Right Thing
Race - notice the reviews in IMDB
Dr. Zhivagho
Communism - diff pol thought system

Life of Pi   faith

Anna Karinina    different era - or was it?
Fr & Ital auteurs in 60s 70s
“slice of life” – no pattern, no B M E
Gods Must be Crazy, The
primitive tribal thinking
Gunga Din
chance to see a classic
Harry Potter
what’s that about?  magical thinking?
Hustle and Flow
Race and creativity
Idiocracy
stupidity runs the country
Inception
is life a dream – is a dream life
Letters from Iwo Jima
2 types of soldiers = thought systems
Papillon
 - reading the world another way (like Egypt)
Memento
what is real
Performance
mind blowing – willful mind blowing
QT film(s)
Feminism
Singing in the Rain
create your own happiness (westher Nayler)
Spring Summer, Fall, Winter
stillness -
Teen movies
as if they are a whole other species
The Shining
the shining
Walkabout
modernism and innocence

waking life dreams - and stuff ...

matrix

We need to talk about Kevin

The Tree of Life
Shutter Island
Roshamon - Kurasawa - the classic about p.o.v.

hear color

Missed video - opportunity

If you miss a video day, you miss a quiz.  Since you are allowed two absences, here is a way to make up:  the video is on reserve in the library.  Watch an episode there in the viewing room.
It is called "CIVILIZATION" - see episode title on the syllabus.  Type up a double spaced paper of no more than 500 words (at least 3 paragraphs to organize your thoughts) to summarize the episode.  You can earn a C or a B rather than an F.
If you are unhappy with your grade on the quiz, you may do the same and potentially increase your quiz score.

Monday, July 29

The Future of the Ancient World


The Restitution of the Ear
July 16
Tabor
The Heart of the Lily
July 23
A MikeS B Ramon
The Soul of the Weather
July 30
C Bianca E Alison F MichaelB Nimi
The Reality that is not There
July 30
G Koji  H Janel  I Christina
Ancient Egy & Soul of  West
July 30
J Daniel  K  L MichaelB
On the Divinity of the Gods
Aug 6
M Sean  N Lindsey  
The Artist as Priest
Aug 6
C Scarlett  F Michael B I Christina
Ancient Egy & Mod Esoter'sm
Aug 13
B Ramon  E Alison G Koji
Being Ancient in a Mod Way
Aug 13
A MikeS H Janel   Nimi
The Future of  Ancient World
Aug 20
Scarlett K  Christian M Sean
Christ and the Gods
Aug 20
  J Daniel   N Lindsey Bianca
Pathwys into future fr Past
Aug 27
Tabor    K Christian


and you all got an email last week about this assignment - including a sample and some critique of July 23.  Remember you can jump into another "letter" and get some extra credit.

Sunday, July 28

Here's that quote

"All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new formed ones become antiquated before they can ossigy.  All that is solid melts into air, all this is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face w/ sober senses his real conditions of life, an his relations with his kind."  Comm Manifesto

Tuesday, July 9

Dustin Hoffman on Tootsie

crazy movie

Crazy movie that changed my outlook, A Serbian Film,  viewer discretion advised.

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