Laurel Ahnert
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Are amusement parks working-class entertainment?
Thank you for your great post Charlotte. It makes me wonder if there is something about amusement parks in general that has become associated with the working-class? Perhaps fairs and amusement parks have always had a working class connotation--I'm t ... -
Gender Issues
Thank you for your post, Roberto, this takes the week's topic in an interesting and unexpected direction. Reading your post I can't help but think more about the role gender plays in this situation. On the one hand, the gay camp reading is expli ... -
Emotional Investment
I wonder if its the contradiction that is the issue (people are comfortable with all kinds of contradictions in their everyday lives, just listen to any political argument), or if it is an emotional investment. It seems the things that bind some of our to ... -
Word Slippage
Upon reviewing my post today, I am struck by my word slippages throughout. I interchange the words "hoax" "fraud" and "fake story." These are married to words like "conspiracy" and "fiction" and "scan ... -
The skin of the film
Tarja, I like what you say here about the different affective encounters between animals and humans in Steam of Life and Grizzly Man. I'm particularly interested in the nuanced distinction you make between the two, seeing the animal-human relationshi ... -
Trent, I like your discussion
Trent, I like your discussion of the filmmaker as empathetic subject here. Often when we think of the performativity of the documentary filmmaker we think of "agent provocateurs" like Jean Rouch or Michael Moore, filmmakers whose presence in fro ... -
Re: New Mapping
Trent, I agree that Flatley's idea of 'affective mapping,' which he applies to modernist literature, can be a useful tool for thinking about all kinds of documentaries, especially since the documentary mode is intricately bound up with 20th ...