COMP-LIT 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Film Registry, Leni Riefenstahl, Carlo Ginzburg
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What and how do you learn from the comparison: similarities. Abstract, distant, imaginary local (and therefore, utopian/dystopian potential), father and daughter as the only (fully) human inhabitants, though non-native; the ship and its crew are in danger, and at the mercy of the all-knowing, all-powerful male: differences. The ship doesn"t crash; crew members actually die; there"s an. Ariel figure, but not caliban; the girl leaves, but the dad doesn"t. If shakespeare assimilates, responds to, and attempts to resolve the historical contradictions and energies unleashed by the invasion of the new world, what does the film respond to: first scene: the krell power machine, 59:54. Similar to the scene from triumph of the will (1935), a nazi. A different type of power machine, the nazi party. Triumph of the will created by leni riefenstahl in order to celebrate and spread the work of the nazis: second scene: the death of doc (1:24:05) Carlo ginzburg, killing a chinese mandarin: the moral.