Essay Due Final Day 9/11

Where has THE world come to - Where has YOUR world come to?
number of pages:  I think it will take between 4 and 9 pages.

Title
Each paragraph
B. M. E.
Proofread

Your realization
3 articles (3 handsouts today)
2 filmic moments
1 life moment

assignment to be emailed by Monday evening Sept 1st

Determined?	FREE YES	FREE NO
YES - determined	COMPATIBILISM	HARD determinism
NO - not determined	Libertarianism	Hard indeterminism:  chance only

è distinguish Freedom from Liberty ... then ask:    Are we free or determined

     Paper has four points:

·          1.  present your "argument" - read the two handouts for some help

·         2.  find 3 moments

·      2 moments in films where (seeming?) choice events arise (could be your own film)

·       1 moment in life (date/no date, fight/no fight, procrastinate/no procrastinate, give another what she wants/withhold, engage in bad habit/refrain)

·       set up the 3 moments a little and argue for it being free or not free, determined or not determined

·          3.  How do these examples reflect upon your argument?  did U pick these 3 because they illustrate your point or did U pick them because you love the moments and now you adjust your point

·         4.  How does morality and judgment fit into the picture?

Gender

http://www.groundswell-mvmt.org/faithshare/listen-up-jay-z-this-muslim-womans-got-something-to-say-to-you/  

'Masculine Feminine" watchers

Oh my goodness - this one is just a whole lot of "low hanging fruit" about gender and sex and coming of age.
What about this movie would today be considered "politically incorrect?"
What about it at the time might have been seen as "avant guard"?

What do the answers to those questions say about the freedom of women?  the freedom of men?
there are other questions too, ways to squeeze an interesting analysis out of this film.  But I am going to take my dog for a walk.  Maybe I will find them outside.

"The Hours" watchers

1.  social conditions of the three generations - which woman is "caught" in the stereotypical condition of her time?  which woman is not?
2.  If one is an explorer - moving out of the condition of her time - what does it take?  bravery?  courage?  enduring loneliness?
3.  who makes money; who is dependent on the money of others
4.  who has children - how dependent are they
5.  dress (costume) - what does it express.  is it restrictive, revealing?  is it a decoration for a man?  how would it speak to the other men (besides the partner).
6.  homemaking and home duties - what do you see - who takes care of operations
7.  romance:  how does each stand with the search for love?  who looks at whom?  who is looked at?  who pays attention to whom?
8.  if there is a partnership, which one(s) would be most devastated if the other left
9.  what is the objective of each of the three women - how can you see the change in objectives as historical markers
10.  how mobile are they - can they get around?  is there dependency?
11.  which "side" are they on?  side of bed, side of couch, side of chairs.  Do they look at one another squarely in the face or are they at angles, kind of looking at the third "spot" and not at each other?
12.  in each of their lives, do the women bring up emotional matters to the other?  does the other bring up emotional matters to them?  do they just avoid emotional matters?
13.  do the women have any other women to talk to?  do they have men to talk to?  to whom do they turn?
14.  if you could ask each one this question, what would they say?  You simply ask:  "Who are you?"  Do they answer with their name, their occupation, something about their marital status, their emotional condition?  their place in history?
15.  how much "room" do they have in their houses, how much space?  how is it used?  how connected are they to matters outside their homes?  maybe you don't SEE it, for example, with Streep, but you know she has a job and in fact she starts on the street, does she not?
these are some questions.

Girl With the Dragon Tatoo watchers

ask some questions and be very specific with answers
1.  does the Girl need anyone financially?
2.  is she motivated by abuse?  does she have a form of "PTSD"
3.  does she dress in the style of the feminine woman
4.  has she taken a typical female occupation
5.  what makes her "jump"
6.  does she have any/many women friends or men friends
7.  is she as smart as or dumber than men around her
8.  is she a specimen that would gather men's gaze/comments to her
9.  does she cook, clean
10.  does she have any children
11.  does she use profanity
12.  is she ever "caught" by nature - or all culture
13.  Where is any instance of "softness" in her room, her dress, her expression
14.  analyze the display (by her) of emotion
15.  what is her objective
16.  if you had to encompass her speech-as-gesture/gesture-as-action - what would the sound be?  I know you cannot understand the language - but you can feel/understand the gesture of the sound.  scroll back and look for key scenes:  what are the sounds?
17.  does she read any books
18.  what catches her eye in town - if anything
19.  is there a moment of happiness?  look at it closely
20.  when she looks at the man - does her look linger?  does she really study his face?  does she avoid eyes?  is she looking for connection?  and the reverse - is he looking looking looking or is his attention NOT on her face, her body?
21.  Is she a "hunter" or a "gatherer?"
etc. - you can devise other questions, too.  You may or may not be able to answer all of these.

"Adam's Rib" watchers. How to approach this task

 Let's assume that the entire universe of post war professional couples is available in this movie.  Now let's list "events" or phenomena that can be "counted" and assessed.
1.  who makes more money; who "needs" whom financially
2.  where are the children to take away the woman's attention
3.  who talks more
4.  what is the subject of talk:  work, household, personality matters, sociability, operations
5.  when there is conflict, what is the source?  who initiates the conflict?  who articulates that it "is" conflict?  is there a resolution?  do they each seek a resolution?
6.  is this a relationship where one is "on top" and the other subservient?  or is this one which is a "panel of equals"?
7.  who looks at whom more?
8.  is there one who would be more devastated if the other disappeared?  Does this person know that s/he would be more devastated?
9.  does one bring up the past?  does one bring up the future?
10.  which one is more connected with "culture" and "current events"
11.  which one would be Democrat and which one Republican?  does this follow the gender pattern?
12.  which one (if either) is more attractive?
13.  does one or the other have a friend or support system outside the marriage?
14.  is there any housework?  who does it?
15.  who drives?
16.  which side of the bed does each sleep on - sit on - drive on - walk on?  count the times!  If someone is to my right, I "peer at him" with my left sense-making brain.  If someone is to my left, I feel toward him with my "wholeness".  Remember it is not "screen right"  and "screen left" - it is flipped.  (ask if you don't know)
17.  which one uses profanity
18.  which one seems more intelligent.  Does one or the other impugn the other's intelligence?
19.  which one laughs more - at what?
20.  does one belittle the other?
21.  which one changes clothes - color-style-cut - more?  does the other wear a standard thing as if the outward appearance is not what counts?
22.  does either one have a "secretary?"

proceed as if the answers are in the particulars and the patterns of this movie.  We are taking it to be the sample of the "whole" of post War america.

Mid term writing: Wednesday morning

The topic is "Gender" and "Sex".  Here are five movies to use as fields of research:

1. "Adam's Rib" - Hepburn and Tracy - social roles, social movements, marriage, children, careers, winner-loser - and important final scene 
2. "Masculine Feminine" - new wave, Godard (very French - significant moments and lines throughout)
3. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - original version (a woman "beyond gender" - both in traumatic incident and in ability to earn her own living and in "non-feminine" but sexy orientation towards sex)
4. "Stepford Wives" - as suggested by MoMo (I have still to watch this one)
5. "The Hours" - (three generations of women:  the woman artist with the controlling husband, the mid 50s American housewife, trapped in her house with the duty to raise children and bake and smile; the single career girl in New York City who loves a man who is gay, and she becomes gay herself - sort of.)

What will you look for in the movie you select?  look for the evolutionary patterns as discussed in class; look for the rebellion against the stereotypical patterns; look for who looks at whom, who looks away; look for who talks more and about what; look for economic power bases of men and women and what happens when the economic power shifts from men to women; look for

Essay to be typed, double-spaced.  Due end Wednesday NOON - or by arrangement.

(Arrangement:  you may choose an alternate topic to research which is close to you, e.g., one student may wish to write about the origins of M.E. tensions.  Another may choose to write about the current media reporting on religion:  If you wish to veer off gender as a topic, email me and talk with me on Wednesday).

See you at 9:15 AM Wednesday.

5 to watch or read & report for Mon Aug 11

1. 

2. http://www.thegeenadavisinstitute.org/downloads/full-study-gender-roles-and-occupations-v2.pdf  you can "get" this by scanning the tables and charts and reading the summary.

3. Why we have sex http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/guide/why-people-have-sex?ecd=wnl_sxr_090410  this will need no highlights.  you will want to read it.

4. condition of women in (some) Muslim countries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXzUuKdfnRE 

5. a "prezzi" report http://prezi.com/efai_nta9xim/femininity-in-popular-movies/

6. oh my here's another http://www.newsweek.com/study-finds-men-nice-women-not-other-way-around-261269 


REPORT:  2-3 pages max.:  what advice would be included in your "speech to the world" if you were given a "speech to the world."   You can write it as a speech - and deliver it - or you can write it like an essay with 2-3 bullet points from each of the 5 above
1,  what do you see:  5-6 bullet points of most important ideas/facts
2.  what do you think is wrong (old) or changing

what's the answer?

This is a harsh look at an issue.
What's the answer?  birkas?  Dress like a 60 year old?
Men educate men?

today 5:45 - 6:45 and next week 4:00-5:00

ALL DONE:  1.  Kris 5:45   2.  MoMo 6:00   3.  Dano 6:15   4.  Jeffrey 6:30

next Monday:  bring journals, LAST CALL FOR all late papers, all feedback
1.  Abu 4:00
2.  James 4:15
3.  Denise 4:30
4.  Jonathan 4:45

Monday: WHOLE group begins 5:00

Actors! nyfa opportunity

The Acting Department is very pleased to announce that we will be accepting submissions for student directed plays from Students in All Departments. If you are interested in directing your own student production please follow the guidelines below :

1) Submit either an original or previously written piece of any length (one act or full length)

2) Submit a brief statement of purpose as to why you would like to direct this particular piece

3) Submit a brief statement of the production elements required including number of actors in cast, crew and all production elements (set, costumes and lighting)

4) Students' project that are selected for consideration will have a "Pitch session" with a NYFA Project Committee to determine which projects will be chosen

Digital Copy Submissions accepted at: anne.moore@nyfa.edu

Hard Copy Submissions accepted: in the Acting Department Office, Glass Building, 2nd floor

All submissions due by Monday July 28th at 12pm  

If your play is selected, you will mount a semi-full production of it in Theater One on dates TBA.

Brando and acting

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/07/how-brando-broke-the-movies/372274/

Week 4 for Week 5: assignments

http://marker.to/vdty3u   and here is a humorous rendition by yours truly

Age        PASS                                                     or    FAIL

0-2          Learning to trust the world around you  or    failing to find a world to trust

2-4          Learning independence                         or    finding shame abt yr dependence

4-6          Learning initiative                                  or    living with guilt about failure

7-12        Learning industry                                   or    feeling inferior

13-19      Choosing an identity                              or    being confused

20-50      Finding work and love                           or    isolation

50-65      Giving back                                            or    stagnation

70–on     Acceptance                                           or    grief

Take a character of yours.  Consider one or two stages:  did your character "pass" or "fail" that stage? What were some of the elements to cause that "grade"?  What impact did it have (or will it have) on the next grade for the character?   Try to get it done in one page, double-spaced:  highlights.  It may be in the script - or your creative work might have to make it up!

monolog from 4:

Body Language at doors and podiums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGd-nflD6bE

here's Bush not even at his own door 

Last but not least, notice how the door opened automatically this time .... and what did O know?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K68THqDqPKc

"Age before beauty"   and .... the feminist reaction against helplessness.

3 forms of communication

1. one to many
2. many to many
3. one to one
today we will also do many to one!  (geese/human example)

lists for today: a blank and 2 examples

try to get a "mix" of positive and negative stereotypes

BELOW ARE TWO EXAMPLES
for one below, traits were not + or -, so I used ?.  For the second list it was easier to list + -

Catch 'em at the beginning, right off the bat

link on how to create "killer opening sentences" - works for writing, film, presentation

10 components of all groups

C h a n g e (3 types)	Integration   (socialization, rules, identifiers, history, recruitment, social class training, boundaries and which way the barbed wire is set up)
Goal	Operations   (procedures, social control routines, mechanisms of recruitment and borders, social class)

Nice Way To Spend 4 Minutes