CMN 201
4/21/20
Topic: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Note: I will be in our class live chat room during our scheduled class for questions/comments/issues
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Zoom Virtual Office Hour
Tuesdays 1:45-2:45 or by appointment
Meeting ID: 702-819-0433
(One class behind because of extended Spring Break)
Final Exam: Wed, May 13, 6:00PM – Thursday, May 14, 6:00PM
Final Project Due
· All outstanding assignments due by Thursday, May 16, 6:00 PM
Horror Film: Spooky Sounds (Chap 7) and Colours of Fear (Chap 8)
Nightmares – Skim Filmography
Blair Witch Project: How quickly the group falls apart (monster within)
28 Days Later (lessons for today?)
--- Hatred/violence contagious
--- One option: apocalypse
---Don’t rely on media/government (abuses of power)
---Continuation of society (horses: black and white)
---Everyone capable of rage
---Importance of community/others (Hell vs.Hello)
---Quarantine effective
Get Out
---Horror and comedy (Jordan Peele)
--- Lack of African -American representation in horror film
--- Commentary on 2010’s (racism: American monster)
--- Micro-aggressions (ignorant/awkward liberal elite) mask macro-aggressions
--- Modern slavery
--- Pun of title Get Out
--- Beginning (out of element/white suburbia)
--- Photographer Chris can see, Collector dad is collecting “treasures”
--- Foreshadowing (cut with white shaving cream, Rose selecting sweets, black mold in basement)
--- Prey (deer/stuffed lions/African Americans)
--- Perfect human/eugenics (physicality and Intellect)
--- Paralyzed by fear – child Chris watches TV
---Irony (Chris puts cotton in ears)
---Symbolism(sunken place = marginalization)
---Poetic justice: dies alone on street
---Message: minorities perceive the truth but are told they are wrong in their perceptions
Watch Get Out (2017) (See Amazon link in previous post)
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