English @ SUNY Geneseo | Nathan Barr | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/nab15/activity/ Activity feed for Nathan Barr. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 01ce3ee3d8b7aad1aded63b0c524e0a5 Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8261/#acomment-8262 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:04:22 -0500 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]

In reply to - Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk ]]> 4ac80f05b9b25abd233729113c02daa4 Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8261/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:03:53 -0500 1 ba64f0e518e56cc33039b553efb1882d Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8244/#acomment-8245 Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:21:20 -0500 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]

In reply to - Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk ]]> b057d3655e5d199becc4c3a2a4cf981a Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8244/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:20:37 -0500 2 656ea76b6e26e21a841a9ce32e775c5e Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8201/#acomment-8202 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:43:23 -0500 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]

In reply to - Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk ]]> 800bdeeb00bf06fe8f3e316628e90dc6 Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8201/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:42:56 -0500 1 f2d55192eea7712452f12b0786cae9ea Nathan Barr posted a new activity comment https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8139/#acomment-8140 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:36:26 -0500 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]

In reply to - Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk ]]> 60056a3e7f0e3d4b73eafeb7819b505b Nathan Barr joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8139/ Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:35:16 -0500 1 e4f3ca9640c7e904699a9bc005aa80df Nathan Barr edited the blog post Context in the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7711/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:41:25 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b22df9e94fb9ac039a57e08af810df35 Nathan Barr edited the blog post Identity and Political Melodramas in the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7693/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:23:44 -0500 a_dublin_famine_irish_monkey2 stage-irishman

 

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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