ENGFLM 1703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rotten Tomatoes, Gynocentrism, Jean-Paul Sartre
15 Nov 2017
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Rooney on sirk: manifest and latent content: ironic mode and questions of visual veracity and multiple meanings, shift in focus to personal lives, production contexts, star image. Interviews: restless spirit and social criticism, ironic happy ending/ echec/ deus ex machina, genre conventions to multiple meanings; clich and its failure, how instead of what. Sirk his endings are ironic (emergency exit: commentary- fake because that isn"t his goal. Tragic moolado- woman of mixed race cannot live in white or black society and is often a prostitute and kills herself. Lara and suzie wear the same colors, annie always in dark and sj in light: fa ade, suzie wants annie to be her mom, sj wants lara. The help and lara treated annie well we will take care of you for a change 1960s: the help has different goals black oriented and wants to address the problem where this wants to hide it.
