Section: May 25: Pop Culture (XL) | Kroulík, M. Ritual as Cinema, Cinema as Ritual: Points of View from Visual Anthropology

Section outline

Marks, Laura. 2011. “Can Cinema Slow the Flow of Blood?” Senses & Society 6.3: 350–357.

What do you understand affect to mean (based on this article)?

Marks considers the strategy of enjoying bodily engagement with ritualists demystifying, would you agree (based on class screenings, not the film discussed here)?

Wherein are the possible problems of the “embodied turn”?

Wilkinson, Maryn. 2018. “On the Depths of Surface: Strategies of Surface Aesthetics in The Bling Ring, Spring Breakers and Drive.” Film-Philosophy 22.2: 222–239.

Questions:

What do surface aesthetics mean? How can we relate them to what we discussed and watched?

Viewing:

Arnold, Andrea. American Honey. United States – United Kingdom, 2016, 163 min.

Korine, Harmony. Spring Breakers. United States, 2012, 90 min.
- Select activity Marks, Laura. Can Cinema Slow the Flow of Blood
  
  Marks, Laura. Can Cinema Slow the Flow of Blood File
  
  Students must
  
  Mark as done
- Select activity Wilkinson, Maryn. On the Depths of Surface: Strategies of Surface Aesthetics in The Bling Ring, Spring Breakers and Drive
  
  Wilkinson, Maryn. On the Depths of Surface: Strategies of Surface Aesthetics in The Bling Ring, Spring Breakers and Drive File
  
  Students must
  
  Mark as done