I thought our discussion was especially thought provoking because we talked about the ways in which films were a constructed world.  I had never thought of movies of having anything in common with the written word.  However, when Dr. Campbell introduced the concepts of semantic and syntactic relationships, something clicked.  The semantic relationships are easier […]

I have to say that so far, I am enjoying this movie more than the others.  The dialogue seems easier to follow than in “Key,” and there’s no subtitles!  Having to focus so much attention on these things draws my attention away from the film itself.  It just seems like there’s so much to keep […]

I’m just playing around with inserting video clips.  Can someone let me know if it worked.  thanks.  Carmen

Is anyone else out there wondering just exactly what we’re supposed to read for Friday?  I have read Warshow 703-19 in FTC.  I’m not sure about the other guy though.  I thought Dr. C. said somethig like ‘Bowdy’, however all I could find was ‘Braudy’ and ‘Baudry.’

“Yojimbo reeks of cheesy, machismo in a way that suggests that men are just all brawn.  Kurasawa must have gone out and killed lots of big game and then shined his sword (phallus) afterward.  The film gushes with archetypes of virility such as weapons, killing and and boozing.  In fact, these things define Yojimbo (can’t remember […]

Working on the assumption that keys do double duty as  a phallus, then what’s the importance of a glass key?  A key’s function is to unlock something meant to be private, secret and reserved.  However, if a key is made of glass it could break into jagged shards and ruin the very thing it’s supposed […]