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WRITING
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INSTRUCTIONS
Do not write a book
report. I still see the tendency to give a summary of the
stuff you read or watched. I know the plots by heart.
What I don't know is what YOU SEE in the texts, especially
the subtle things, not the main themes. It's the personal
processing that YOU SHOULD be interested in analyzing and
disclosing, first of all for yourself.
And that personal processing? That's what I am interested
in, your filtering, your perspective.
How can you do it?
First, pay attention to how you feel at the beginning, and
how you feel at the end of book or film.
Second, whatever you feel, ask yourself what made you feel that
way.
That's how emotions become thoughts.
Then, you have to communicate your analysis. That's how
thoughts become ideas. |
Answer these questions using the guidelines above.
1)
What movie did you find more
annoying, L'emigrante or Moonstruck and why?
2) What aspects irritated you
the most (don't say 'the subtitles,' as in "it wasn't in English")
in EACH movie.
3) Moonstruck. Is this what non-Italians
have in mind when they say that Italians of all stripes are
"passionate?"
In Moonstruck "being in touch with one's feelings" leads to
cheating, emotional betrayal, complications, etc. So, is it all good?
Should one always be true to oneself? Why is it OK for Loretta to cheat on her fiance', but not for
Cosmo? How did you react INSIDE when you saw their trajectories
intersect?
4) In Moonstruck
you have the blatant stereotype of the cheating Italian man (and
woman). And, of the immature momma boy (in Italian we call them "mammone.")
So: to represent unethical business practices, our culture uses Mafia
imagery (remember?)
To represent homicidal bestial rage it uses Italian immigrants.
To represent betrayal and sexual lust it uses integrated Italian
Americans.
To represent sexual infidelity (moral failure) it uses integrated
Italian Americans, again.
To represent manual job workers /business (baker, plumber, waiter) it
represents integrated Italian Americans, again.
No? And why, then, is the
professor Anglo and not Italian?
Can Italian Americans ever
catch a break? |