FILM 3401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Consciousness Raising, Alterity, Mon Oncle Antoine
4 Apr 2016
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Cross country skiing away into the horizon. Small house by the forest (colonial/settler feel) Iconography is canadian wintertime: dictates landscapes, clothing. Garrison mentality nice little home with wilderness on all sides. Women play several important characters in the film flora, audrey"s wife. Marion, the nurse in the hospital, the manager of the hospital, the girl (nina. There are less male characters in the film and more female characters. Plays into the national" (i. e. search & discovery of a national identity) Plays into the feminine identity politics, women"s movement: distinctive female identity independent of patriarchy. Alzheimer"s plays into notion of history (memory) and identity (nation, female) History and memory: basic building blocks of identity. Identity (national, personal, political) is dependent upon history (memory, past) No memory = no past/history = no identity. History (past, memory) becomes more important as an anchor. Alzheimer"s emulates what happens to our society in the post modern age.
