When Destiny is Manifest:
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Videocassette (485)
Emile De Antonio’s provocative 1968 documentary In the Year of the Pig. There are distressing images in this film. But also long talky patches. Non-required.
Hair…
… as an element of mise-en-scène. Below: James Mason clutching Margaret Lockwood in The Wicked Lady (1945).
Ravenous/Sorrow Prompt (485)
I have to admit I’m not entirely satisfied with this prompt. I’ll probably tweak it. If you have any questions please email me or respond to the comments section of this post.
The Sorrow of War and/or Ravenous
Both The Sorrow of War and Ravenous address the issue of US imperialism by using supernatural story elements such as ghostly or monstrous characters, eerie atmospherics, and strange events.
Research concepts such as Manifest Destiny, American Exceptionalism, and/or anti-communism in order to explore how one (or both) of these texts dramatize ideologies and consequences of imperialism.
How are specific formal techniques (of film/ prose fiction) used to narrate the violence of empire? What social content– i.e., explicit or implicit judgements, values, critiques, etc.– emerges from these stories?
Excerpts (485)
These excerpts could prove useful to a discussion of Ravenous and The Sorrow of War.
Two entries from Ness, Immanuel, Cope, Zak (Eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism. NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.
WOT
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Body Count: Casualty Figures After Ten Years of the “War on Terror” Body_Count_first_international_edition_2015_final
