READING RESPONSE (Smartwriter)

homework:1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqMS6PXyp5MA 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_1898_empires_colonies_territory.png

Reading response:  The two websites represent a view of the world.  How do they do it and how are they related?  Reflect on the perspectives and your idea of representing the world of today.

Homework: 2

 Reading: Whitney Chadwick, “Separate but Unequal: Women’s Sphere and the New Art,” Reader article  or review Carol Duncan’s article from Introduction to Visual Culture

https://web-b-ebscohost-com.proxyserver.otis.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=0b1493d6-8a8e-4f8d-85e8-edc975482354%40sessionmgr198&hid=116&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=asu&AN=505730945

Write: Reflect with particular attention to race and gender on the way World Fairs promote particular ideologies.  or

How does Duncan’s argument about the museum relate to the discussions about the Fairs?

Homework3:

 Read the article by Timothy Mitchell, “Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order”

in: Grasping the world : the idea of the museum / edited by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago.  Call Number  AM7 G58 2004

 Related reading [optional

or Write: 
How do Eurocentrism and Orientalism get reinforced by the World Fairs? Address Mitchell’s position and your own.

220-260 words

if there is a citation please MLA

FRiend respond change it to ur way please

The Loved One & Forrest Lawn Reflection

Forrest Lawn Memorial Cemetery was full of ideological markers. When driving in, I immediately felt the Euro-centrism from the huge opening gates. The buildings at the entrance are of European architecture, and the Mermaid statue in the pond was Dutch. Going to where the Last Supper was on display, the architecture changed to a more European Gothic, almost like a castle. There was a multitude of European statues displaying the European ideals, and biblical paintings. There was also a Flower shop, bringing back the idea that the cemetery was in fact a business full of commercialism. On display that day there was also a motorcycle exhibit. Strange, but ties in American values and culture into an otherwise extremely European site. I did notice that the cemetery left no place to actually mourn your loved ones, even the founder’s creed stated that he didn’t want this site to be sad and sorrow filled, but a nice place for students and lovers to enjoy. Forrest lawn was indeed beautiful, but I felt like it wasn’t a cemetery, and that it is almost disrespectful to the souls who have layed to rest there.

The connection the “The Loved Ones” film was hilarious. In the film, we are shown the mask the cemetery and funeral business wears. Yes it is all beautiful, but is it supposed to be? Yes we want the best for our loved ones, but does all the bells and whistles really matter if they aren’t even here to enjoy it?

I think it is my religious standpoint, but I don’t fully understand the concept of burials. In my beliefs, when a person dies, it is the body that dies, and the soul moves on. Why spend all of this money to worship a rotting corpse when the soul is long gone?

2 Please change this one two 

Question: Revisit the scenes from the film and interpret them with the reading as your reference.  Reflect how your perspective was affected by the readings.

Response:

In the film, there is a scene where Hitler is coming down from above. The people are cheering “Hail Hitler” and it is as if he is a God descending from the heavens. This film was made to look like a documentary capturing the events of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, but in actuality felt more like a propaganda film. The camera angles and cinematography was artfully arranged, the director Leni Riefenstahl wanted the audience to feel a certain way to the images being shown, and to have a particular reaction. Riefenstahl made the Nazi party look like an actual political party, when in reality, it was a dictatorship. The soilder’s song that I mentioned in my original response, was partly false. These “soldiers” were in fact worker men with their shovels, loving, admiring, and saluting Hitler and the Nazi party. These men acted like Hitler’s solders even though they were not in his army, but part of his workforce. After the reading my perspective of the film has not changed; however, my thoughts on the subject advanced after the in class review and discussion on the film and the Nazi party. It is crazy to me how many people were in blind support of Hitler, and treated him like the God that was sent to restore Germany as a higher power.