February 19: Music, photography (see syllabus). Please bring your copies of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. We will examine the prefatory material, including the photographs at the front of the text. Start reading the text, because we will be moving through it relatively quickly.
February 22: Let Us Now up to page 65, including all prefatory material
February 24: 66-193
February 26: 194-278
March 1: 279-page break on 343
March 3: to end. Paper DUE.
I think the most striking scene in Sullivan's Travels was the prisoners walking through the church in chains. It was noted in class that the prisoners were largely white, the congregation of the church entirely black, and the song they were singing was a slave song, about Jews in slavery to Egypt.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the Mickey Mouse cartoon from a different angle. At first, Sullivan isn't laughing at the cartoon at all. It's as though he refuses to see the entertainment (or artistic) value of the purely slapstick film they're all watching. It isn't until he looks around and sees the audience laughing that he realizes that "brainless" comedies have their place in society.
-Josh K.