Personal Identity I ask students to bring their baby or early childhood pictures to class. After they try matching names with images of their classmates, I ask a question about their own picture: Are you the same person today that you were at the moment captured in your photo? Students readily admit that their physical … Personal Identity in Memento
The Gaze: Power and Resistance in Film Read “The Oppositional Gaze” for homework (see below) the day before class. It’s fairly long and challenging. Watch the 19-minute video. This material explores the way what Sartre calls “the gaze” operates in films and how the perspective of the camera and of the implied audience affect the … The Gaze: Power and Resistance in Flim
In 2007 an independent film came out entitled “My Kid Could Paint That.” It followed the art career of a four year old, Marla Olmstead, living in Binghamton, NY, who took the art world by storm. Many of her canvases sold for five figures and presented beautiful and engaging abstract images. The film began as … Can anyone make art?
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