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.

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.

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

Dustin Hoffman on Tootsie

crazy movie

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

Welcome to Sociology of Knowledge

What do we know?

What is knowing?

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Pertinent to the documentary we watched

Sarongs for Miss World

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/06/06/PC-Beauty-Miss-World-Ditches-Bikinis-for-Less-Revealing-Sarongs

The Honor Belt: Corporatization of Family

1.     Descent is traced through males

2.     Clear preference for birth of sons over daughters

3.      Growing up, boys enjoy considerably greater freedom and are groomed to assume a dominant role in the family.  As girls grow up, their worlds contract; they gradually find themselves more and more segregated from boys

4.      Girls receive less schooling. 

5.     Girls typically required to wear loose clothing, conceal their hair--may be required to wear a veil

6.     Woman’s sexuality is not her own but belongs to her family.  If suspected of having sex before marriage, may be forced to undergo a virginity examination

7.     Families marry off daughters at a young age, especially in under developed rural areas.  E.g., Turkey, 16% of women in the 1990s married before 15, the legal age for marriage

8.     On marrying, woman usually goes to her husband’s home, subject to the authority of her husband and her mother-in-law

9.      Outside the home,  public world of work, politics, law, & religion: male dominated

10.   Families are clan-like, exhibiting temporal continuity stretching backwards and forwards in time.  The family has a history and, its members hope, a future.  A married couple does not establish its own separate family but, rather, continues and extends the family

11.    Multi-generational and extended:  a man and his brothers and their sons and wives and children and perhaps grandchildren may live under one roof – or close

12.    Share common property:  land and animals owned by the family rather than by individual members

13.   Centralize decision making:  typically in the hands of older members, esp men

14.   Often practice endogamous marriage:  patrilateral cousin marriage (a son marrying his father’s brother’s daughter) is preferred, sometimes modal, through M.E.  Cousin marriage keeps property within the family as wealth is transferred on marriage goes to kin rather than non-kin.

15.   Parents often choose the marriage partners of their offspring.

16.   Honor killing (killing a woman if she engages in sex, particularly outside the religion) is the family’s social control but, according to the West, is itself criminal.

17.   The family acts as a unit towards the world.

SOURCES (more soon) Faqir, 2001:  72 and Vieille, 1978

  

When families are more individualistic, less corporate, honor offenses are handled less severely

3 big Hollywood celebs on gender

Polansky on the attempt to make the sexes the same 
Geena Davis on Sexism in Hollywood
Glenn Close on her role in "Fatal Attraction"

Sexism links - general

! VIRGINITY TESTS prior to marriage
Sexism is the military's greatest sin
Sin to tell a woman she'd make a great mom
The classic piece:  "The Personal is Political"
Rape in the military
she's Too Pretty to work
Time to stop Hooking Up - you know you want to
Will this app make us stop buying sexist junk?
Visualizing LARGE BREASTS - what it says
Women:  no more menopause ? ? ?

craziness - ? - n the treatment of women

Sharia law:  Better off under Mubarak in Egypt

what our government offers girls 10-16 y.o.:  look at this sex advice

Men - what are men going through & what's true of them?

• men (trying to) think in front of a woman (+ what we saw in documentary)
• men, not reading women's emotions
• men say "I love you" first - really?  what do you think?
• "Chickification" - manliness in the era of feminism
• "manliness" - and low expectations
• Men's tears and women's tears
• Men's brains:  10 facts
• falling behind women:  who wants this?
• in 40% of households, women are the major wage earners
• body size and political positions

"pair bonding" - what happens

desire in a long term relationship
marriage and love
sex over 50
some (more) women wanna just "stay home" now - what's that about?

will YOU become more conservative as you age?  people do

gender bending & abandoning the family as the unit

girls forced to kiss

• transgendered high schools
• dorms:  gender neutral - how does THAT work?
• dorms:  more on genders in dorms
• France:  gay marriage ~ "Non"
• VERY high % of 1st borns to unwed mothers
• LOOK AT these to bend stereotypes of women ...   

         and then again there is THIS of the Israeli women soldiers

• "Hooking up" as an alternative to searching for love:  what happens?
• girl who 'should be' a boy
• adverse fallout of breakdown of traditional sex roles:  meningitis among gays

One Second Every Day

start here - what do we use with which to "make sense"

what do you see
direct experience
memory
stereotypes
social conventions

Hey S&G-ers! Check out this trailer for your fellow CCHer Morgan Toll's thesis film. I art directed it and would love for you all to watch and share with friends. We're going to be posting a campaign on indiegogo in order for us to finish it and would love all the support we can get. Thanks! - Victoria

Cameron Russell: Looks Aren't Everything

https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model.html

this was posted by someone else - but as a draft.  I thought it was a good one so I am posting it.  didn't know if the poster wanted to be anonymous... or what

Money on gender change.

your-tax-dollars-at-work-

Film Lists

Let's use this post to suggest films that fit the categories:  jobs, patriarchal or break-the-mold, family, hot sex, sex as topic, violence, age and sex, LGBTQ, Weddings, Ethnic Differences, Single Parenting.

I saw one this weekend that is great for Ethnic distinctions and gender relations:  Tarantino's "Jackie Brown."  Wow, what a film!

Feminist's son accused of sexual aggression -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324600704578405280211043510.html

what do we do with our observations?

Learning about behavior patterns that tend to attach to a particular sex or  gender (by nature or by culture) can help to free us. We might have been thinking (and acting) like our friend or partner *is* a certain way, but when we realize that it is characteristic of an entire sex or gender, it has the potential to free us.  We can let go of a notion that our friend or partner "should" be a certain way.   For example, if a woman thinks "her man" does not notice details, it may help for her to realize that many men tend to be busy with goal-based focus, not detail.  Likewise, if a man thinks "his woman" always wants to talk and seems too dependent, it may help for him to realize that this is the way women behave to feel closeness.

Welcome to Sex & Gender Roles Workshop - CCH

visit these links for the first week  War on Boys and "Am I Pretty?"

Gender Roles - laugh, stereotype?

Erikson's 8 stages

NICE and simple

http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/slideshow-18-secrets-guys-wish-you-knew?ecd=wnl_sxr_042311

RBrain LBrain quiz

Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others. Left Brain Dominance: (8) Right Brain Dominance: (9) Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz

Femen

here's a picture to contemplate

8 STAGES of any relationship of any life

1. trust - we need it to explore...if we have it not, we mistrust & thus cannot explore
   
2. independence, autonomy - we need to find it in order 2 find freedom ... if we do not, we have shame
3. initiative - we need to learn to take it ... and if we do not, we have guilt
4. industry - if we do it, we avoid a feeling of inferiority
5. identity - if we do not land on one, we become confused; everyone else seems to have one
6. affiliation and love - adult life:  we seek those we love and work we love
7. generativity - if we have passed thru all  earlier stages, we get to the point where we wish to give back
8. integrity - we feel it if we have been able to do all the above; otherwise, despair.

G will be B - B will be G

Men and Women - walking

When walking away from one another, to “show off” to the opposite sex, WOMEN SWAY THEIR HIPS AND MEN SWAGGER THEIR SHOULDERS ~ from "What Every Body Knows"

dancing girl and cellular

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFV6h6MXQkI   <-- dancing girl:  which way does she turn?

http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/questionnaire/questionnaire.cgi?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6568107389365915765&hl=en#   
a little lecture about how even on the cellular level we always EITHER go towards (sweet) or retreat (fear)   when we fear incorrectly (i.e., fear thing that are not true threats) we spend energy in unnecessary ways and then our cells (our personalities) do not do what they do when operating optimally.

Ppl are "biased towards" optimism

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2074067,00.html...

roving eyes

The case for letting your partner's eyes rove

Frequent Sex Protects Marital Happiness for Neurotic Newlyweds

Science Daily

"21 Habits of Happy People"

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1x4AcX/www.globalone.tv/group/gratitude/forum/topics/21-habits-of-happy-people%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle      and... authentic happiness

Belief and reciprocity in Book of Eli

I just watched The Book of Eli by the Hughes brothers. Very creative and beautifully shot film, I really enjoyed it. There are great examples of the power in belief systems, and the positive and negative reciprocity of actions. I recommend it to those who have not seen it.

entropy

1. Symbol S For a closed thermodynamic system, a quantitative measure of the amount of thermal energy not available to do work.

2. A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system.

3. A measure of the loss of information in a transmitted message.

4. Tendency for all matter & energy in the universe 2 evolve tw a state of inert uniformity.

5. Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society.

Everyone...

Please come see The Pioneers in our new play "Fools" - June 10th, 11th, and 12th in the CCH theatre. It's hilarious, sweet, and even better than "Noises Off"! (and if you didn't see "Noises off", GO SEE "FOOLS") :)

Happy Mother's Day

Hope that everyone has a lovely Sunday spending time with their mothers- whether it be at an outing, over a phone call, or in memory =)

ok film makers ... here is one

It is free play on Netflix

Just Curious

Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.

What does it say?

Need Storyboard/Makeup Artist?

I don't really know if its appropriate to advertise myself on here. bc 1. I'm no longer in the class and 2. this doesn't relate to psych. But we are in film school- anyone need a storyboard artist, makeup artist, or even tattoo artist... my contact info & portfolio @ http://victoriavieira.mosaicglobe.com

Makeup work on Hannah Kornbern's Short 'Clown Frown'

Raised by Wolves

9 Children Raised By Animals

Y do we have two of the following?

are Drisk and DNA the same person - or is this just some weird coincedence?  I want to del one.

Enter xtranormal - win $$

http://xtranormal.zendesk.com/entries/505615-creating-a-movie-for-the-xtranormal-film-festival-presented-by-bing   - it's fun and we ought all to sign up for the class anyway

How to sign up

link to a video on HOW to sign up if U cannot figure it out thu the (somewhat misleading) Google prompts
Once in, you can Post or Comment or Both.  Good to get convos going rather than just a series of shoutouts.

UK - newcomers dominate box office

click it

The Press called my town "dead" - this was my town's response

nice use of xtranormal to outline school problems

Tall Painting

Must watch!

yep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcexJQM-8W0&feature=channel 

a treat - listen all the way through

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTHLCXETac

last assignment

settle down and watch these - 15 min each

http://community.moojisangha.org/video/guided-meditation-part-1

http://community.moojisangha.org/video/guided-meditation-part-2

6 points of today's psychology in the US

• Foundation:  uncertainty?  science is truth, truth is science (not-magic)?  i-can-do-anything?  entitlements? small world?  digital?  all-control-all-the-time?  vulnerability through strength of electronic world?  
• Self:  self-ISH? lonely-isolated? not gender based?  sexually ambiguous? freer? on a side because all if bifurcated? New Age'd and responsible for "happiness"?  Metro-sexuals?  secular?  believers?  drugs as solutions?
• Network:  NO networks? must be a team player? disposable relationships? men-women "equal"?
• Soc Sys:  locked up?  poor & rich US within poor & rich globe?  bureaucracy rules?  newly open to diverse groups?  digital?
• Change:   terror, global resources (water-food shortages), upswing of religious fervor, conflict reality, smallness of world, outer space-inner space discoveries, speed of charity, empathic world view growth

"HOLLYWOOD"

• FOUNDATION - Everyone's in show biz
• SELF - self sufficiency expectation:  hard work will "do it"
• NET - networking, "who you know"
• SOC SYSTEM - technology affords opening to creativity
• CHANGE -  ?

Oh No, Not Psychology - Sean Williams

Same two characters we saw, on Girl w the Dragon Tattoo

xtranormal assignment

www.xtranormal.com   sign up, download free, make a movie of 1-5 minutes.
one character monologue or two character dialog about something you learned from this class.  Watch my little movie on the stages of life:
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7881121/ 
Comment here on my little movie so I know you watched it :)

Post your little movies here - but SAVE rather than PUBLISH so we watch them all together next week in class. 

And the winner is ...

Larry Rodriquez for Best Actor!  Wow, was Larry ever good in "Noises Off!"

8 stages of life

1.  Erickson detail 

2. Erickson - the short, clear chart 

 3.  the pimp and the whore version 

Positive Psychology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBxfd7DL3E
He speaks of psychology to get into the positive rather than just to get out of the negative.  There is a test you can take to see what gets you into the "flow", which is the better place to be than to be in pleasure.

Final Paper

1. Fears:  falling, noise, constriction - all of which prevent creativity, our natural urge (Otto Rank)
2. Invalidation:  Drama of the Gifted Child (Alice Miller)
3. Emotional Zone:  Fact Field, Judgment, Practices (Tabor)
4. Goal Setting:  foundational "law", self, network, social sphere, change of 3 types (Objectives - Stanislavsky)
5. Body Language (our book #1)
6. Influence - examples of influence techniques (our book #2)
7. Stages of Life (Eric Ericson)
8. "quads" of types
9. Birth order

same as mid-term paper.  stick to the method of analysis you select  

PICK your film off this list - or email me so I can watch it 

notes for paper on stages of life and Barry Lyndon 

erikson stages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFKAfixHJs

I see I am talking to myself here but ...

 why not.  Just viewed "Barry Lyndon".  Great.  Kubrick.  Great life lessons.

A "Meetup" about the business of movie making

link here

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Wow.

Amazon Studios

Wow - substantial awards for commenting on, developing, editing movies

Be smart - read the assignment

The book is on reserve in Library.   Be ready to speak on 3 of these 10.  We go over prior to watching movie Thurs.  They are all good for script-writing - see esp #2 6 9 - but all are useful.   Be prepared to say what they ARE, some examples from the book, and some of your own examples.   

1. ask for more first
2. "fixed action patterns" (good for a script)
3. establish low expectations
4. authority
5. be nice:  people like people they like
6. reciprocity (good for a script)
7. "social proof"
8. lowball
9. commitment and consistency - see image on page 104 (good for a script!)
10. scarcity

what technique(s) of  the rules of influence did I use in the Jeopardy "Game" we played?

Review of paper due Thursday

Due Nov 18th and last day of class - 2 papers, 5 page maximum
Use a theme presented in class - you have these from which to choose

1 - fears (Otto Rank: falling, loud noises, constriction)
2 - BL (Body Language) - movie or political speech - remember gravity
3 - Emotional Zone - Fact Field & interruption / Jmt / practice "keep it moving"
4 - Goals - the results of having or lacking a clear OBJECTIVE: 6 sides: premise 4 actions SELF NETWK SOC STRUCT CHANGE (3 TYPES of change)
.  .  .  .  .  .  .  "What keeps me going is goals." - Mahummaad Ali
5 - Influence-see above post - can read book & use for paper 1 or wait for paper 2
6 - Types or Stages WILL COVER December 2
Grading 3 parts: FORM ASSIGNMENT JUICE

Can you pick the film about which you will write

bunch more in the comments

Ad Hominem

Another way to put Henry's point is that the discussion was all "ad hominem" rather than about issues.  Ad hominem means "to the man" "to the person" - comments made about a person's characteristics rather than comments made about an issue.  What kind of movies one likes or dislikes has nothing to do with the soundness of an argument or utility of a point of view.  

American psycho!!!

I see that was the one picked so is that what were watching Thursday?

Paper Nov 18th - 5 page max

TELL ME THE FILM - or take off list

1. fears
2. BL - movie or political speech - remember gravity
3. Emo - Fact Field & interruption / Jmt / practice "keep it moving"
4. Goals - objective:   6 sides:  premise  4 actions  SELF  NETWK   SOC STRUCT  CHANGE (3 TYPES of change)
5. Influence
6. Types or Stages 

Grading 3 parts:    FORM    ASSIGNMENT     JUICE

The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

It was really long, but that was fine.  I felt like I could watch it for the rest of my life. Thx for rec.

what psychology is this?

The Wise Student ...

downloads these notes for tonight <-- CLICK
and the also-wise student reads this sample paper for the paper that is due on the 18th.

See you tomorrow candy!!

The return

Live Longer?

happiness - and you can willfully produce it