MARCH 5
Films:
Daisies (Chytilova 1966) DVD 5059
Simon of the Desert (Buñuel 1965) DVD 3281
Duck Amuck (Jones 1953) Blu-Ray 114 disc 1
Reading (to be done by March 11):
Małgorzata Radkiewicz. “Angry
young girls:
Gender representations in
Věra Chytilová's Sedmikrásky and Pasti, pasti, pastičky.”
Paper topic (paper due March 12. All undergraduate papers to be printed and stapled and brought to class. All graduate papers to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):
Discuss the final scenes
of Daisies. How do you read them in
relationship to the film’s first 70 minutes? Pay particular attention to the
scene in the water that begins the sequence, the dialogue in the cleaning
scene, the short montage that follows it, and the final text.
