Permission to withdraw is at the discretion of the instructor after the mid-term date. It is my intention to help you write to think. Both textbooks will provide the structure for the following written assignments. I would suggest that you do one film review and critical essay on the same movie you examine for the term paper. Movies do not merely offer us the opportunity to reimagine the culture we most intimately know on the screen, they make culture.
Representations colonize the mind and the imagination.
We will settle in with an overview of film as a rhetorical act and cultural artifact. Begin to read about film criticism. This week will explore the total film experience using the concepts we have been developing in class. What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum while exploiting it as the secret.