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Course
M, 2:30-5:20
W, 2:30-4:20
Thomson 125

Instructor
K. Gillis-Bridges
Padelford A305
543-4892
MW, 1:00-2:20

Page last updated
11/18/02

Title--Course Materials

Cut-Off Reading Packet Sentences


Packet Page 74 (source page 115), last line:
  • in the film as Cynthia Darrington, an independent woman and a woman in
Packet Page 76 (source page 119), last line:
  • The most interesting manifestations of this preoccupation with ambiguous
Packet Page 254

Bottom Left, “Realism”
  • One afternoon, as she watched the water dry on her skin, he began to tell her about water mocasins. They live in nests at the bottom of lakes, he said, and if someone happens to come swimming by, they rush to the surface and cover the person with poisonous bites.

Bottom Right, “Oblivion”
  • By comparison, American rituals began to seem dull and superficial. She thought that might be why he took so little interest in trimming their Christmas tree or going to mass with her on Father's Day.

Packet Page 256

Bottom Left, “Kinship”
  • Und ach, sein Kuss! (And oh! his kiss!)
For “Maya Deren and an American Avant-garde Cinema”
  • On 244, Rabinovitz refers to “ideas” that Deren tried out in A Study in Choreography for Camera and Ritual in Transfigured Time.  She’s talking about Deren’s interest in the symbolic language of myth as a way to explore psychology and to express her own “psychological self-awareness.”