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Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment 7 years ago
I would like to comment on two aspects of your engaging analysis of The Silence of the Lambs. The first concerns Lector’s status as villain or antihero. You correctly recognized that Lector is not the main villain of the film nor are we, the audience, supposed to view him as such. Instead, we, like Clarice, are fascinated by Lector: by his i…[Read more]
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Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk 7 years ago
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Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment 7 years ago
Nietzsche and Animal Imagery in The Silence of the Lambs
Two images, one visual and one verbal, in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs reference, I believe, an extended metaphor from the first essay in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morality. The first is the hawk, seen when Clarice Starling crosses the first threshold by ent…[Read more] -
Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk 7 years ago
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Nietzsche and Animal Imagery in The Silence of the Lambs
Two images, one visual and one verbal, in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs reference, I believe, an extended metaphor from the first essay in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morality. The first is the hawk, seen when Clarice Starling crosses the first threshold by ent…[Read more] -
Nate,
I really enjoyed reading your post, I found your comparison between Nietzsche and Silence of the Lambs to be extremely interesting. I definitely agree with the points that you are making – the film can certainly be considered an extended metaphor to Nietzsche’s “The Genealogy of Morality.” The examples you provided regarding the animals…[Read more]
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Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment 7 years ago
Wit and Truth?
Through Vivian’s fourth-wall breaks, Nicholas’ Wit constantly draws audience attention to the narrative discourse, the sjuzhet, of an otherwise simple story: her battle with cancer and death. This technique creates an intimacy with the character. But it also helps reveal the contrast between reality and representation which Viv…[Read more] -
Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk 7 years ago
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Wit and Truth?
Through Vivian’s fourth-wall breaks, Nicholas’ Wit constantly draws audience attention to the narrative discourse, the sjuzhet, of an otherwise simple story: her battle with cancer and death. This technique creates an intimacy with the character. But it also helps reveal the contrast between reality and representation which Viv…[Read more]
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Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment 7 years ago
Reading Artistotle’s Poetics in preparation for today’s class made me more aware of a potential problem in translating Piers Paul Read’s Alive to film: the episodic nature of the Fairchild survivors’ experiences. Their experience required them to adapt to a surreal routine: melting snow, preparing flesh, going to the bathroom, treating wounds,…[Read more]
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Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk 7 years ago
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Reading Artistotle’s Poetics in preparation for today’s class made me more aware of a potential problem in translating Piers Paul Read’s Alive to film: the episodic nature of the Fairchild survivors’ experiences. Their experience required them to adapt to a surreal routine: melting snow, preparing flesh, going to the bathroom, treating wounds,…[Read more]
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Nathan Barr edited the blog post Context in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago
The following pages titled ‘Political Melodramas’, ‘Literary Revival’, and ‘Musicals’ are the least conceptually ambitious on this site. They aim to provide a basic historical and literary background for the plays discussed later on. They also offer a vertical route for exploring other pages. For instance, ‘Literary Revival’ leads to analyses…[Read more]
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Nathan Barr edited the blog post Identity and Political Melodramas in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago
Popular Irish melodramas from the Victorian and Edwardian periods were formulaic. One-dimensional characters populate a picturesque emerald landscape dotted with ruins and sheep, a landscape deeply engrained in the Irish collective consciousness. A noble yet forgettable hero falls in love with a devoted, self-sacrificing beauty while h…[Read more]
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Nathan Barr became a registered member 7 years, 5 months ago
I would like to comment on two aspects of your engaging analysis of The Silence of the Lambs. The first concerns Lector’s status as villain or antihero. You correctly recognized that Lector is not the main villain of the film nor are we, the audience, supposed to view him as such. Instead, we, like Clarice, are fascinated by Lector: by his i…[Read more]