DA movie map

Found this picture today while surfing the net. Thought it was pretty interesting. Depicts a map of the United States with a film that represents each of the 50 states. Its pretty cool the range of films that are used but all are agreeable except I feel they could have chose a better film for California than FTARH.

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AMC Fearfest 2010

If your like me than you love a good scary movie and there's no more appropriate time then Halloween. For the past two weeks AMC has been dishing them out all day. If you haven't already, tune in and catch your favorite holiday flick. This week they are playing a new Halloween every night.

Till death do us part.

Found this.. thought it was funny.. is this what the worlds coming to?

Fathers on TV

There have been so many different types of families depicted on television through out the years. It seems that as society changes so do the families. A great way to express how different we have become since the dawn of television is to compare two of the most famous TV dads, Ward Cleaver and Al Bundy.

Commercial Placement

I never thought about the placement of commercial before today. I just always thought commercials where thrown here and there without a thought. I realized this today when I was watching ESPN. I flipped and a commercial for Jamison Irish Whiskey was playing flowed quickly with a Mens Warehouse spot and then it dawned on me. You never see any feminine commercials on this channel. There aren't any tampon adds or make up commercials during Sports Center. What had blown my mind is something very simple. Of course the producers are going to select commercials that appeal to the target audience (male). Thank God we have one thing to call our own.

Bad Planning?

Just found this costume.. thought it was pretty funny.

Peeping Tom

This week, I learned different THEORIES about different ways to view male and female characters in films. The two main ways are known as scopohilic and narcissistic looking. Scopohilic is the act of subconsciously viewing a subject as an erotic identity and narcissistic looking demands identification of the object on the screen through the spectator's fascination. According to researchers, scopohilic relates more to men and narcissistic relates more to woman. In simple terms, the man views the character sexually and instead of the woman viewing the man sexually, she views the woman with envy. We then implied this way of thinking with the Hitchcock classic, Rear Window. Rear Window focuses on a man who is stuck in a wheelchair and the only form of entertainment is to watch his neighbors go about their business. Hitchcock is known for casting very beautiful woman in his films and this one is no exception. The famous Grace Kelly plays the main love interest which sets off a lot of scopohilic views for the male audience. There is another woman in the film who is known as Ms. Torso because she likes to practice her dance moves in her underwear across the court yard. Not only does this emphasize the scopohilic view but I feel that this triggers the narcissistic view with the woman audience. Agree or disagree???

ARRIVEDERCI!

This week in my critical perspective communications class I learned of the negative European views on American culture and pop culture. I learned that the people at the famous Frankfurt School viewed culture and mass culture differently. Things such as real, imagination, active consumption, individual creation, and European fell under culture while false, distraction, passive consumption, mass production, and American fell under mass culture. I was able to relate this to the American film Inglorious Basterds during the climactic scene when Lt. Aldo Raine comes face to face with Col. Hans Landa. Raine is American and posing as an Italian film maker. He can't speak much Italian and is restricted to only the basic words such as gratzie and arrivederci. At this point you have already learned that Landa is German and very intelligent. He can speak many languages fluently and makes it obvious that Raine is not Italian through their conversation. I feel this scene makes the European look smart and dominant and the American as dumb and inferior. However, I feel that my point is summed up in the scene prior to this where the German actress Bridget von Hammersmark asks Raine, "Can you Americans speak any language other than English." Even though there are plenty of Americans that are highly intelligent and can speak many languages, it obvious there is a strong difference between the view of intelligence between American and European cultures.