ENGL 2P13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Buddy Film, Intertextuality, Ennio Morricone
10 Mar 2016
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Recognizes that popular art plays a role in shaping national identity. Creates a recombinant western to increase it"s aesthetic power/spectacle. Awareness of the need to treat some kinds of violence diferently from others. Mobilizes the viewer as avenger by getting them to cheer for the destruction of slavery. Art as cathartic and as public speech the power of art to challenge history (especially american history). Art expands the models of heroism possible inds heroism in the viewers imagination. Art forms are not distinct from each other music, literature, tv, ilm, signal their relationships. Makes explicit that every work of art also has a history in art, ethics of acknowledging inluences. Dishonours the ancestors of african americans (spike lee calls samuel. Jackson tarantino defending tarantino like a house negro defending the masses. Is responsible for rise in cultural violence (sandy hook) It is not art it is sick and trashy .
