HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Terry Gilliam, Brothers Grimm, Gothic Fiction
29 Mar 2019
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Subversion is forming a resistance: teaching function on fairy tales are proper gender behaviours. If there is a text for that, there is a subversion. She did it without a male rescuer: he is the same class from she is (snow white, he just happens to be there at right time and right place. Golem: one level a creation story, on another level is a fairy tale. In the very end of the story, it discuses how the rabbi brought peace to jewish community: a linguistic cue that represents a divine presence. Dir terry gilliam, 2005: didactic functions, one brother sees the monetary value of tricking people, the other believes the validity. There is a dynamic: the wolf is gendered in the story, children who wonder off the path and quest for knowledge becomes problematic. In red, positioned at the perspective of wolf, the forest that comes to life. Significance of red - coming of age story.
