HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Melvins, Misogyny
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The manchurian candidate: purpose is to connect several images/continuity, garden party/yen/brainwashing b. i. Moved into his unconscious sinatra"s bad dream, going between his dreaming face and the face in his dream b. ii. We change spaces in the garden party even though we have not been told b. iii. Marco"s scene: an integrated platoon sits on stage; male and female. Soviets and chinese become white women dressed formally. Party lecture is genteel; ye lo"s lecture sets out to overturn an old wives tale. b. iv. Allen melvin"s sequence: the same platoon sits on stage; male and female. The dreams rewrite racial and national difference (latent content) as sexual and gender difference (manifest content). Manifest content is the shape it gave to you. This film thinks that the threat posed by the chinese and soviets is deeper than the threat women might pose to men b. vii. By and large, women are looked at and men are the ones looking b. vii. 1.
