Wow--Too many projects...
In a strange and self indulgent moment the author of this blog stops by to make the pointless observation that this blog has seemingly been left to die. I suppose part of the problem is the fact that I am writing far too many blogs (or not writing as the case may be).
Perhaps it is time to be more wasteful with my time and correct this horrendous slump. I think so.
Decisive moment immediately followed by uncertainty about what to do next...
A question? No. A story? Perhaps not. A project? Yeah, some drivel that no one should really read.
Currently, I am supposed to be working on an MA Thesis (supposed because my advisor wanted me to do a draft last spring and I haven't communicated with her since. I'm hoping that a complete draft and some serious groveling will elicit the needed feedback on a draft and her continued willingness to eventually sign off on the whole thing).
At any rate the subject is one that I feel like rambling on about. In Sandra Goldbacher's 1998 film The Governess identity becomes a discussion of authorship particularly female authorship, while at the same time vehemently denying and erasing the fixity of identity and the threat of essentializing that comes with that fixity.
I'm coming at all this firmly from within the ongoing conversation on female spectatorship that began with Laura Mulvey's 1972 article "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema" and (at least in my humble opinion continues today in discussions of female authorship in the cinema. Of course I concieved this project in 2003-04, so I really need to do another sweep of what's out there on this film and this idea, seeing as I last did so in the summer of 2004.
The "so what" of all this is, simply, the idea that it is crucial to recognize art that encourages us, even enables us to think about ourselves and our world in ways that move us toward a greater appreciation for and of the endless variety of existence.
Perhaps it is time to be more wasteful with my time and correct this horrendous slump. I think so.
Decisive moment immediately followed by uncertainty about what to do next...
A question? No. A story? Perhaps not. A project? Yeah, some drivel that no one should really read.
Currently, I am supposed to be working on an MA Thesis (supposed because my advisor wanted me to do a draft last spring and I haven't communicated with her since. I'm hoping that a complete draft and some serious groveling will elicit the needed feedback on a draft and her continued willingness to eventually sign off on the whole thing).
At any rate the subject is one that I feel like rambling on about. In Sandra Goldbacher's 1998 film The Governess identity becomes a discussion of authorship particularly female authorship, while at the same time vehemently denying and erasing the fixity of identity and the threat of essentializing that comes with that fixity.
I'm coming at all this firmly from within the ongoing conversation on female spectatorship that began with Laura Mulvey's 1972 article "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema" and (at least in my humble opinion continues today in discussions of female authorship in the cinema. Of course I concieved this project in 2003-04, so I really need to do another sweep of what's out there on this film and this idea, seeing as I last did so in the summer of 2004.
The "so what" of all this is, simply, the idea that it is crucial to recognize art that encourages us, even enables us to think about ourselves and our world in ways that move us toward a greater appreciation for and of the endless variety of existence.
posted by BG at 2:02 PM
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