Monthly Archives: November 2010

Postmodern? Alter – modernity Where are we at now? What can we say about our era? Cyberspace= before the web people used to read newspapers. Pre- Cyberspace= Cini file Cinema – space of the pre cyberspace era. Conceptual notions of … Continue reading →

Postmodernism includes – Irony, intertextuality and Shrek plays on fairy tales that are there already. Postmodern culture differentiates throughout the world, different things are modern in different societies, in china the technology is much more developed than in the United … Continue reading →

Alfred Hitchcock- “The voyeur is presented as a ‘diseased’, often paranoid, violent individual who violates the norms of everyday life. Films validate these depictions of the voyeur by having persons in power (family members, editors, supervisors, the police) articulate how and … Continue reading →

Surveillance – hidden camera Surveillance:  I think that we have lost all our privacy, it’s rare to go somewhere, and not have cameras, your being watched everywhere you go, and it’s become normal to us to have cameras around us. … Continue reading →

Books: Barry, P, (2002) 2nd edition, Beginning Theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory: Cambridge University Press. Macey, D (2000) Dictionary of Critical Theory: Penguin Williams, R (1977) Marxism and literature: London: Oxford University Press Websites: post 3 http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/copernicus.html … Continue reading →

Wed 3 Nov Semiotics = The Study of Signs “Signifier”  ->   Signified Humans, react to colour in various ways. Colour red connotes, power/passion. Colour black connotes death/evil/mystery. Abstract art, images that leave the perceiver to decide what the image signifies. … Continue reading →

Wed 27 Oct “The “Crisis of Modernity” is the sense that modernity is a problem…The crisis is, the present is a transitional point not focused on the future, but simply changing through forces outside our control (this …directionless change we call … Continue reading →

Wed 20 Oct Today we focused on The meaning of ideology. We looked at feminism and participated in a discussion about gender. Ideology: In the book ‘Marxism and literature’ Raymond Williams states: “Ideologies may be based on religious, social, political, … Continue reading →

Wed 13 Oct Today we looked at Nicolaus Copernicus. “Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only … Continue reading →

Wed 6 Oct: I think, Marxism observes the economic world Exactly as it has been constructed: as a fixed game. “Philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways, the point however is to change It.” ~Karl Marx Marxism I believe, … Continue reading →