Guys: Thanks for the Sleeping Beauty papers. They look good. Tomorrow, we'll be watching SOME CALL IT LOVING as promised. Be prepared to discuss the curious relationship the film bears to the story...

-D

COLLIER ASSIGNMENT

Hi Everyone:

Due next week is a one-page paper on the Collier story, SLEEPING BEAUTY.

Explore a theme or metaphor that interests you, while discussing the structure, tone and word choices that make the story "come to life." No plot synopsis, please -- any reference to the plot should support an IDEA.

Good Luck,

D

ASSIGNMENT

Write a 250-word essay addressing alienation in Knipfel's U.P. - feel free to supply your own definition or use Marx's definition (cited in class). How does the theme play out? That is, discuss tone, atmosphere, plot, your own empirical experience as a reader...

Please do not simply provide a synopsis!

Submit via email to: driccuito@yahoo.com.

Good luck,

-D

goals and visions by noam chomsky

Hi All:

Just ran across this article - an absolutely crucial work for anyone interested in Anarchism as a means of interpreting and changing the world.

-D

http://books.google.com/books?id=rF4bXdo10ZYC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=noam+chomsky+goals+and+visions&source=bl&ots=-1IYP79dm5&sig=lFMEzSQTpbn2CgavujdNU0VGIrQ&hl=en&ei=C1fLSuCXDoiMMrqSpcED&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Is this something that has been noticed before (endlessly)? There's a hotel-room scene 3/4 of the way into Vertigo that mimics Un Chien Andalou. Just before the final touches of Kim Novak's transformation back into Madeleine... (Even the Bernard Herman score suddenly riffs on Bunuel's use of Wagner - the same passage from Tristan and Isolde emphasized again and again in Chien.)


The weird dream-time, the same placement of the figures in relation to the window...

and, again, the Hermanized Wagner!

Why waste time with Lang's Metropolis,

when you could be watching BOOT HILL?

This is a fine spaghetti western featuring inexplicably gay cowboys.

In other words everything BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN was SUPPOSED to be...

Only with revolutionary dwarfs.

-D

Clarification: your final paper can be based on ANY of the the major texts (your choice) and is due at the end of the semester. Again the length is up to you, but there is a minimum requirement of 5 pages/1,250 words. Please include a word count; and submit the paper via e-mail - driccuito@yahoo.com - as no hard copies will be accepted. Paperless = wonderful!