Blog Archive for February, 2012
HeShe Species
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
I was struck by a few portions of the reading, chapter 8 of TC “Generding the Text,” so I decided to explore those parts a little further in this blog post. It seems we inhabit two different worlds: one where femininity/masculinity is seen as a natural product of our being female/male, and another in which we [...]
Experiences: Going Beyond the Text
Bringing together both our discussions of song lyrics and the movie Vertigo, I’ve been enlightened and almost surprised how much effect our environment and initial experiences of a reading or movie has on our view and understanding of it. I think even each person had the same general background about the movie and the same [...]
Reader-response criticizing a movie
I had never seen an Alfred Hitchcock movie until “Vertigo.” I’ll admit, it was a different sort of experience than what I’m used to now. I enjoy watching older movies; I used to come home from work at 3 a.m. and turn on TCM. Obviously I’m not opposed to watching older movies. I like the [...]
Vertigo
Let me start off by saying how much I love movies– I enjoy watching them, analyzing them, and discovering other people who share movie tastes similar to my own. So, I was very excited at the prospect of being able to do all of these things for a class, because these opportunities rarely arise. I [...]
Stories Are Just Stories, Film or Prose
Until Friday’s class Reader Response had still been a little iffy for me. Talk about yourself? Your reactions? Your feelings? After being told all throughout high school to never use the word “I” this seemed so backwards. Even after reading the article assigned I wasn’t in that mindset. This may stem back to the fact [...]
Had To Go With My Girl – Virginia Woolf
Even though our assignment changed for Friday and Virginia Woolf’s A Haunted House was no longer required, I still had to read her piece. I understand with Woolf people have a love/hate relationship, and I definitely have a love towards this phenomenal woman. I must say though while taking a feminist critical crack at A [...]
Discovering Reader Response
Honestly, I was not expecting to enjoy the movie Vertigo. When I saw that it was over two hours long, I was even less excited. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Not once during the movie did I get bored or stop pondering the mystery within the plot. I’m sure the fact that Jimmy Stewart played [...]
A Brief Wrap-Up Of Our Lovely Discussion
Cory Estreen Leah Larson 2/22/2010 Abstract Norman Holland has a deep connection to the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo that he explains in his article Hitchcock’s Vertigo: One Viewer’s Viewing. The explanation of the plotline and use of unique film techniques are scattered all throughout the article while Holland attempts to convey his odd sense [...]
Why introductions are frustrating
Introductions and, to a lesser extent, conclusions have always been difficult for me to write. It seems as though every English teacher I have had has a different take on these necessary parts of an essay. Rarely, however have I gotten a complete picture of good introductions. Things that I have picked up in English [...]
Disturbing the Universe
Being a writer is hard work. Actually, I mean to say writing a paper is significantly hard work which consequently means taking the position of a writer is a challenge. Being an English Major has taught me that much—especially considering all of the papers we write for both Lit Theory and the other courses we [...]
