Interesting Article

Gender Flipping in Hollywood

5 paintings = 5 world views

1.  Egyptian:  artist trained to mix the human with the beyond
2.  Mideval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_art 
     "God as the Architect of the World"  http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/gothic-illuminated-manuscripts.htm   and http://artsofthetimes.hubpages.com/hub/medieval-art-history-ancient-art-forms-of-the-middle-ages#slide5818828
3.  Renaissance art http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/27/renaissance-art-perspective   men and books and instruments
4.  Modern art Monet (the light)  http://www.claudemonetgallery.org/home-13-24-1-0.html  
Manet (the look) http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/manet/manet.bar.jpg   
Manet (the hooker) http://www.abcgallery.com/M/manet/manet6.htmlNude - time http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51449.html
5.  po-mo   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_art <-- 2 images there a.) old + new and b.) urinal

Civilization

Michael S found this for us:  catch up if you missed an episode during class
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/civilization-is-the-west-history/

What is true?

here is some Soc'y of Knowledge

http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-close-to-controlling-memories-and-brains-with-computers-2013-8

Interesting p.o.v. about "narrative"

http://www.upworthy.com/a-ted-talk-that-might-turn-every-man-who-watches-it-into-a-feminist-its-pretty-fantastic-7?g=2&c=ufb1 

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.

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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