https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/erica-george/activity/ Activity feed for Erica George. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 da2415f8e803693b306fe848a737a179 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/witness/#post-357 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:09:56 -0500 Created several years after the dissolution of the Hays Code, Witness reads as a commentary on the increasingly violent and sexual state of film. The film is set in two drastically different communities: the peaceful, pious country of the Amish and the violent, abrasive city of modern America. As such, the Amish perspective in the film works as a…[Read more]

]]> 74dddca861ea23e7b0e0703286bc2a4e http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/a-new-american-perspective-in-glory/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:20:49 -0500 Offering a rich and emotional representation of the history of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts, Edward Zwick’s Glory (1998) acts as a response to the informative yet narrowly-focused history presented in Peter Burchard’s One Gallant Rush. Moving away from Burchard’s singular exploration of Shaw’s heroism, Glory gives a narrative voice t…[Read more]

]]> 9c20fe62aa5ebb02cb1f223c65ff8dd8 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/big-fish/#post-240 Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:47:32 -0500 I agree that we as viewers tend to sympathize with Edward’s son as he dismisses the validity of his father’s stories. I would argue, however, that this connection to Will is both an intentional and successful tactic used by the writers and director of Big Fish to call attention to what Campbell would say is evidence of our modern cynicism. In…[Read more]

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