ART 250 Lecture Notes - Dirt Farmer, Surrealism, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1 Feb 2014
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Chris vs tom (j. wayne: gangster vs westerner. When a westerner loses his repose he must a) die or b. ) leave: john wayne. After convincing ranse, tom is positioned outside. Characters enumerate, terms as gov things have changed. The typical western takes place in 1870. Western are often set on a border ->picketline: built environment. Typically someone building is a metaphor for settling the west. Landscapes move from eden to a land of peril as the genre ages: the media. +along w/ a bible these were the literature materials the frontiersmen had access to: education. Everyone is included, race gender & age blind. What we wish history was: history vs collective memory. Its no fun being a dirt farmer in a western. E. g. california was spanish before us invaded. +few movies feature europeans vs us: landscape stands for our country. Art 250 nancy keefe rhodes: american culture w/out irony. Irony distances, we feel the need to qualify.
