Thursday, October 14th 2010 Missed Class The Wagers of Ineractivity. Please complete the readings for the week. (Group Discussions will begin.) • Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (MCS) • Kahn and Kellner, “Oppositional Politics and the Internet” (MCS) • Bergman, Persona Questions to Consider in Week 6 Does Bergman’s montage effects with Bibi Anderson and Liv Ullman position women as the male ‘Other’, one that symbolizes women as a second sex or as Aristotle posits “half a man”? In your discussion, think about the female archetypes represented. How do silence, violent oscillations between distance and close-ups, and lighting impact Bergman’s depiction of women in the film? (In your discussion, you might want to consider the “gaze” as a weapon.) |