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Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic Cool Hand Luke Review in the forum Film Talk 5 years ago
“Throughout the film, Luke maintains a strong sense of character.” This line really stuck with me after reading your post. Luke knows who he is and no one is going to tell him otherwise. Maybe he has some kind of death wish or PTSD (being a war veteran and all), but regardless of his reasons for being so impulsive, Luke lives his life to the…[Read more]
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Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic Appearance vs Reality in Big Fish in the forum Film Talk 5 years ago
Firstly, I want to say that you present a great description for the story as a whole, primarily on your analysis of the “stories” element of the film in that it was used to “make reality a bit better”. I would like to ask however, when you say, “By the end of the movie, Will realizes that there was more truth to his father’s tales than he t…[Read more]
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Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic The Selfless Hero in the forum Film Talk 5 years, 1 month ago
I must agree that Rick does act selfless on many occasions, most notably sending Ilsa and Victor out of Morocco to escape the Germans; however, I must agree with Gabrielle in that he does act fairly jaded towards most other characters in that he does not give many the time of day. He even acts petty towards Ilsa, and although he is reasonable for…[Read more]
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Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Smoking in Movies in the group Film Talk: 5 years, 1 month ago
I had this post done and ready to go yesterday, however, an error popped up when I tried to save and everything I wrote had been deleted. So here is take two of this blog post. Apologies if it falls short of the […]
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Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic A Review of The General, 1926 in the forum Film Talk 5 years, 1 month ago
When we first watched this film last week, I did not even think about how the technical aspects of the film and how they affected our perception of each scene. Something as simple as the right camera angle or lighting can greatly affect how we interpret moods and anticipate what events are right around the corner. As for your interpretation on the…[Read more]
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Jonathan Kalman joined the group Film Talk 5 years, 1 month ago
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Making a “True” Statement vs. Stating the “Whole Truth” in Photo-Journalism: Expanded in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago
A while back I had created a post called, “Making a “True” Statement vs. Stating the ‘Whole Truth’ in Photo-Journalism”. As I was going through some of the blog posts other people have created on this page, I not […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post The “Z” Word in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Is there an outright ban in using the word, “zombie” to refer to zombies in literature, television, and movies? While reading Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, he never refers the zombies as zombies. There’s actually […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post World Building in Literature in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
How many ways can an author attempt to build a world within a books plot? The simplest way could be to just let the story begin within the context of the real world. Let the setting start within that of the actual […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Making a “True” Statement vs. Stating the “Whole Truth” in Photo-Journalism in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
What does it mean to be a journalist? In my mind, it means reporting on local, regional, and even international events that can effect any number of people. I believe that the news should always be truthful and […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post “When The Levees Broke” Credits in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
It was about the time right before Spring break when our English 432 course watched the credits for the Hurricane Katrina documentary , When the Levees Broke. It was during this class period that we analyzed each […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Effigies: A Performance of Waste? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 12 months ago
One of the many topics that we discuss in Professor McCoy’s English 432 course is a concept provided by Joseph Roach’s, “Echoes In The Bone”. This concept which claims that violence is the performance of waste, is […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post The United States: Hollywood’s Effigy For Earth in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Why is it that almost every disaster movie, whether it is natural, alien, zombie, etc, occurs in the United states. I’m not saying that there are not plenty of disaster movies that occur in other countries. One […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Autonomy. Is it achievable? Part two. in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Hello again everyone. Before I continue with part two of, “Autonomy. Is it achievable?”, here is a link to part one. http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/01/27/autonomy-is-it-achievable/.
Before we begin […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Autonomy. Is it achievable? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Dictionary.com defines autonomy as, “independence or freedom, as of the will or one’s actions”, “the condition of being autonomous; self-government or the right of self-government”, and, “a self governing […]
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Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post A Better Way? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
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In the world of Octavia Butler’s “Clay’s Ark”, those infected by the Proxi Two symbiont have strong sexual urges that cannot be easily restrained. According to Stephen Kaneshiro, a resident of the Clay’s Ark enclave, the symbiont makes you, “like having kids. Makes you need to have them” (Butler, Page 532). As far as the reader…[Read more]
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Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post “Free Will” Part 2 in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Earlier in the year, I had made a blog post in relation the concept of free-will. I evaluated this concept through Butler’s work, “Fledgling”, but now, I want to look at it through “Dawn”. This is not to say that the other two parts of the Lilith’s Brood trilogy are unimportant, but that I feel that this question is best analyzed through the first…[Read more]
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Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post Oankali and Humanity in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
One of the main questions formed when reading Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilogy, is, “what does it mean to be human?”. Within this work, an alien species called the Oankali, find the Earth nearly destroyed by a nuclear war and try to preserve what is left of humanity. The Oankali do this by incorporating some of their own DNA into the rem…[Read more]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post “Free Will” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
Is there such a thing as free will? Octavia Butler’s Fledgling has made me rethink this philosophical debate. Within this work, as those who’ve read it know, the saliva of an Ina bite addicts humans to the Ina […]
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Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Reaction to Bloodchild in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
Before diving into the main focus I wish to present within this blog post, I would just like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. I was completely unable to predict where the story would g […]
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