Weekly Sightings #2

Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning (1990)

Paris is Burning is the first production I ought to see for my current seminar about "totally normal" displays of gender. Before I  watched the documentary, I read a few sentences about it on wikipedia and imdb but it is one of those films where no literal information is actually a match for the display of personality, performance, power and endurance. I really liked that it seems like this documentary did not need the director to ask something. This supports the individuality of every shown character in a very subtle sense.

5/5
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Pandleton Ward's Adventure Time with Finn & Jake (2010)

After seeing more and more submissions about Finn and Jake on various galleries like imgur.com I thought I should give this series a try (this decision was supported by the fact that the newest episode of Hannibal and Game of Thrones wasn't in sight). It did catch me instantly, but I am still figuring out, what the actual audience is "supposed" to look like. Regarding the recurring references of sexuality and pop-culture on the one hand and the smoothly evolving sympathy for nearly everyone, even with the "villains", on the other it is a very tough question. Good for me because now I have pseudo-scientific research to do and that means more visual overstimulation for the future.

4,5/5
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Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night (1948)

This movie is  part of a seminar about "New Theories of Genre" and we focused  on the theme of "Lovers on the Run". I am currently writing on a small synopsis of Prof. Martin's lecture  about the inability to label this movie and the very special depiction of man and woman. Stay tuned!

4/5







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Sources:
All pictures are taken from the film's article on wikipedia