The Pongo’s Dream This folktale follows a lowly serf and the mistreatment he receives from his cruel master. It ends with the serf’s sweet (see what I did there?) revenge delivered in the form of an omen about the afterlife. The story made me reflect on why we have folktales. Entertainment yes, but the keyContinue reading “Week 3: Folktales and Legends LAST 201”
Questions prompted by Child and Noble
Some of the stamps mentioned by Jack Child
Images of Pancho Villa
video for week 2
While watching the beginning of Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus, I found the film’s depiction of children and fashion particularly insightful into the popular culture of Brazil. Several times, children play soccer, which implies it is part of popular culture, as the children are unlikely to come up with the game on their own and likelyContinue reading “Black Orpheus- the Roles of Children and Fashion in Popular Culture”
For this week I watched Marcel Camus’s “Black Orpheus” (after seeing the required eleven minutes I decided to watch the whole film). Camus fulfills the viewer’s fantasy of the Brazilian carnival. It opens with classic Brazilian sounds, vibrant colours, kites, and women dancing with packages on their heads. The song playing during the title isContinue reading “Week 1: What is culture? LAST 201”
The movie Black Orpheus starts off with upbeat (samba?) music and a dancing group of people in all ages in the countryside/mountain. It seems like they are having fun dancing and playing with the kite and drums. I enjoyed the opening of this movie, the upbeat and exciting music displayed the setting of this show, which […]
The movie Black Orpheus starts off with upbeat (samba?) music and a dancing group of people in all ages in the countryside/mountain. It seems like they are having fun dancing and playing with the kite and drums. I enjoyed the opening of this movie, the upbeat and exciting music displayed the setting of this show, which […]
With the recent elections in the United States, I felt like this week’s lecture was a little more relatable, especially in terms of the 1988 Chile plebiscite. Although we’re not living in a dictatorship like Pinochet’s in Chile, I think we can see some similarities between the “No” campaign and the campaigns that were heldContinue reading “Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power”
