ENGL 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Psychological Trauma, Fruit Salad
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Lecture outline: last quiz be next week, reading for next monday is quite dense: important essay, documentary reenactment and the fantastic subject . Nichols documentary reenactment and the fantastic subject : idea of lost object of reenactment. Unlike the contemporaneous representation of an event - the classical documentary image where an indexical link between image historical occurrence exists- . Different forms: the dead, the gone or the nonliving (non human object: roger in me: auto industry: lost object. Reenactment serves as a resurrection: nicols, 5 types of reenactment: Realist: least distinguishable, conventional fictional representation of that event, staged event, passing as directed cinema. Parody and irony: exaggerates the separation of the reenactment of the original event, tone: called the reenactment itself, superstar: reenactment with barbie dolls ex. Facts of daughter rite: characters are played by actors, genre: disguised fictional autobiography, 3 main types of sources: film makers memories and dreams: