by admin | May 15, 2021 | Film studies
Hello this is a reflective journal and does not really need sources. I shall add the documents below needed for this assignment. The directions from the Professor is below verbatim. “For this Reflective Journal, we are going to observe OTHERS, and similarly...
by admin | May 15, 2021 | Film studies
Philip Roth quotes Sigmund Freud in an interview as having said “A man who is loved by his mother is a conquistador.” Think about Jack Robin in the 1927 Warner Brothers’ film The Jazz Singer as a possible example of this sort of man. What does a mother’s love do to...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Film studies
Consider the pursuit of a bourgeois Jewish-American existence as it relates to 2 characters from Allegra Goodman’s 1996 novel-in-stories The Family Markowitz. What are these char- acters pursuing? What makes them feel rewarded? How do they sometimes get bogged down by...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Film studies
Define the meaning of “seriousness” in the Coen Brothers’ 2009 film A Serious Man as it relates to 2 characters. Reflect on whether (and how) the so-called “serious” men incorporate Jewishness into their lives. What’s at risk with too much seriousness? What’s at risk...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Film studies
Using a similar analyzing method of John David Rhodes in “Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film”; (https://placesjournal.org/article/prop-and-property-the-house-in-american-film/?cn-reloaded=1) putting cinema into conversation with other...
