HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Frontier Thesis
23 Apr 2013
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Camera angles and visual aspects created film focalization. Identify each sequence in relation to focalization, and framing. Do not include plot within essay, only comparison analysis, discussing the significance of the focalization and framing. One text: big fish/ movie & another text/different media (from second term) Structure: big fish first, and then the second chosen text. Ideas: kid"s being embarrassed of their parents; we see through the son"s eyes, not edward"s. How do focalization and framing affect your perception of the story. In the development of american democracy, focuses on the west and the frontier and as landscape ( think of it as a political and social concept) Pg 107- turner"s frontier thesis: emerges in 1920"s. After the end of ww1 as a historical point where the us intervenes in a world conflict. Involvement in spain germany and asia acted as a catalyst for an expression of us identity abroad.
