Critical Studies Lecture - The History of Film

CRITICAL STUDIES

LECTURE: MARK SWEENY

DATE: 22/05/13

Harts Change - Scribbly Bit

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I liked this bit well enough the first few times but now I'm not happy with it.  That is to say there are a few wrinkles here and there which need to be smoothed out.  The priest stammering is wrong [1] and I really want Lady Lutin to have a larger part.

Of course the last time I said that I ended up tearing apart the church but this time It's early enough in the story that I can change things around without it affecting anything of consequence. 
Anyway, this piece is set near the end of Chapter 2 with all the narrativly important people journeying towards the Barons Mischance in the Royal City of Hermitage.  Due to the great change there are priests who have joined the caravan with their own wagons full of the dead which they are taking "down to the waters" which is just another series of rituals in a long series of rituals which ends up the bodies being taken to the Silver Mountain where the priests eat them[2].
So exactly why am I telling you all this?  It's all because the body of Evelyns son is in one of the priests wagons [3] and she isn't about to allow the holy crocodile to claim her son.

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1. At least researching stutters and stammers isn't going to be as gruesome as researching amputation. :)
2. But, you know, in a sort of holy way.
3. Like so many others he didn't survive the great change which saw humanity become centaurs (but on the plus side everyone seems to have really long hair.  No baldies in my books!)

A - Z Challenge L - Z

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So here it is.  The final posting for the challenge.  I couldn't get all the letters done so we're just going to pretend that those bands all got visited by some form of Yoko Ono.

POST 1: A - D
POST 2: E - H
POST 3: L - Z

Collected Lecture Notes

Links to the series of lectures that I've been posting lately. - You know the ones that have kept me from doing actual funny posts on this thing :D.

Thoughts on The Dark Crystal

THOUGHTS ON

 THE DARK CRYSTAL

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At the course they told us to pick a movie and analyse it.  Since I was already researching Brian Froud, who designed almost everything and continues to make beautiful art.

BUT after about a week of watching movies they forced us to choose from a list.  This, in a word, was rather infuriating.

So here I am, sitting on an actual essay that is now actually redundant which means that I shall free it to live in the ether with the hopes that it helps someone sometime somewhere.

Analysis of The Frog Prince OR Carry On Croaking

Analysis of The Frog Prince

OR

Carry On Croaking

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Before we begin I ask you to bear in mind that the Grimm brothers were master storytellers [1] but one thing that I've noticed about their stories is that whenever a character is engaged in something seemingly harmless it's only a matter of time before tragedy descends and the entire situation spirals wildly out of control.
For example. Snow White was killed by a poison apple, Sleeping Beauty was enchanted for a 100 years through the clever use of a spinning wheel and Red Riding Hood was eaten by a wolf [2], Sometimes it's as if they were trying to do better and be just that little more gruesome with each story.

But not this gruesome

Keeping this in mind it occurs to me that I've not always being fair on the assorted Prince Charmings who ride through these stories and rescue princess's from perils most dire [3].

While your average Prince has a pretty tough old time fighting against the latest evil whilst remaining rather dashing it must be said that the prince in this story has it pretty bad.  How bad you ask?  Well read on and find out.

A - Z Challenge E - H

| INTRODUCTION
Righty dokey then then. for me this challenge has turned into more of a weekly thing so I'll have to make up for it by posting more stuff.  That being said here's some more stuff.

POST 1: A - D
POST 2: E - H
POST 3: L - Z

Critical Studies Lecture Notes

CRITICAL STUDIES 

LECTURE BY: GRANT CORBIN 

DATE 10.04.2013