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Okay, retyped this because the computer thought it would be better if it shut off right as I got to the end
( IA CTHULHU! )
( And now for something completely different: NYC Teaching Fellows Interview )
( Yay for River! )
Now I must start thinking more seriously about what to write my next horror paper on. I'm supposed to move outside of the class discussions more. I've chosen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and 28 Days Later as my foci, and I want to compare the two films' treatment of the military in each. I could have done Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later which both fairly obviously make the military/militant gun nuts the human survivors' enemy, but they're too closely related. No zombie movie exists after Night that doesn't owe a lot to that film (the most recent Dawn of the Dead being one of them), so comparing 28 Days Later to it would be sort of like trying to explain why all those other asshole red-and-green-blotched apples are different from macintoshes. Body Snatchers makes effective zombies of people, but there's enough difference that I can work with it. I'm also going to see if I can get information on the film minus its framing story--the frame story has the hero telling what's happened in a long flash-back that is the movie, and the military is going to save the day. Supposedly, this was forced onto the film to make it happier and more hopeful, but that it was later re-released without it (or the remake doesn't have it). I could also contrast that framing device with the one used by Dawn of the Dead in its beginning/ending credits. I have to figure out what makes a more interesting topic. Opinions? Should it be: A) Conflicting representations of the military as savior/destructor or B) The evolution of the frame story in horror cinema. The last one is really too large for a small paper, but it's really, really interesting. I might save it for my fourth paper and finally get to talk about the horror prologue, something I've been thinking about forever, since he first mentioned it in class...hmm....damn it's due Tuesday.....
( IA CTHULHU! )
( And now for something completely different: NYC Teaching Fellows Interview )
( Yay for River! )
Now I must start thinking more seriously about what to write my next horror paper on. I'm supposed to move outside of the class discussions more. I've chosen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and 28 Days Later as my foci, and I want to compare the two films' treatment of the military in each. I could have done Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later which both fairly obviously make the military/militant gun nuts the human survivors' enemy, but they're too closely related. No zombie movie exists after Night that doesn't owe a lot to that film (the most recent Dawn of the Dead being one of them), so comparing 28 Days Later to it would be sort of like trying to explain why all those other asshole red-and-green-blotched apples are different from macintoshes. Body Snatchers makes effective zombies of people, but there's enough difference that I can work with it. I'm also going to see if I can get information on the film minus its framing story--the frame story has the hero telling what's happened in a long flash-back that is the movie, and the military is going to save the day. Supposedly, this was forced onto the film to make it happier and more hopeful, but that it was later re-released without it (or the remake doesn't have it). I could also contrast that framing device with the one used by Dawn of the Dead in its beginning/ending credits. I have to figure out what makes a more interesting topic. Opinions? Should it be: A) Conflicting representations of the military as savior/destructor or B) The evolution of the frame story in horror cinema. The last one is really too large for a small paper, but it's really, really interesting. I might save it for my fourth paper and finally get to talk about the horror prologue, something I've been thinking about forever, since he first mentioned it in class...hmm....damn it's due Tuesday.....
