Continuing the tradition of strange electives in the recent past, this is from my "World Cinema" class. I compared two films: Gomorrah (Italy, 2008) and Beaufort (Israel, 2007). They both consciously deal with issues of cinematic realism, and the call into question what exactly a war zone is.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
"Academic Series" #2 - Mrs. Dalloway "Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman"
In this piece, I explore Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a traditionally modernist way, stemming from Woof's manifesto that much of the things in life are small and fleeting. People think that Mrs Dalloway is a bore - the characters in the novel think the woman is a bore, and people in real life think the book is. It's all about the quiet art of life, of making a moment in your mind with a creative frame.
"Academic Series" #1 - Gog and Magog
I haven't updated in a long time primarily because other things took away from my writing time - namely, finishing my English degree. But some of the pieces I wrote ended up being quite interesting, and I don't think that they would be out of place here. I'll start with an article response for a religious studies "Apocalypticism Throughout the Ages". In it, I semi-formally go through a rough history of Gog and Magog - ephemeral apocalyptic figures that recur throughout history. I'll look at kept them in the human consciousness, and how it relates to ideas of the end of the world in general.
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