THTRFLM 3DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Carnivalesque, Tambourine, Tipi
11 Mar 2015
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1st act = oral history of first nations: cultural context. Stage setup with moon background that changes: light used to portray teepee and fires etc . No attempts to clutter with realist details. Chosen to be love story with gentle humor. Not a story between almighty voice and rcmp. Expansive view of sexuality interested in brother as well. Act 1: running with the moon individual scenes her vision the proposal. Wedding night flight killing rcmp tracking them, Midwinter moon honeymoon hunting moon his vision point of view of almighty view and immediate relations- how they would have lived start with her vision end with his: narrative in between of their relationship. American theatrical form comprising a group of black faced white minstrels whose material caricatured the singing and dancing of negro slaves in european tradition of carnivalesque inversion: becoming the degraded other temporarily. 19th century form deals with colonial anxieties by maintaining divisions between races .
