Derek Gladwin: Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (lecture) (21/03/2015)

source: Arts One Open    2015年3月21日
In this lecture for Arts One at the University of British Columbia, Derek Gladwin talks about the degree to which this film revisits Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and deviates from it (the students had just read Conrad's novella), the style of filmaking that this film could be said to fit into, the historical and cultural context of the film, and cultural and literary references in the film.
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Derek Gladwin & Christina Hendricks: Conrad's Heart of Darkness & Coppola's Apocalypse Now (13/02/2016)

source: Arts One Open         2016年2月13日
This is a lecture for Arts One at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC
In the first half of this lecture, Derek Gladwin (guest lecturer for this session) discusses the historical and cultural background to Apocalypse Now, its genre, its references to T.S. Eliot, and the significance of the song by the Doors that bookends the film.
In the second half of the lecture, Christina Hendricks discusses themes of light and dark, surface and depth in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, as well as concerns about racism (as put forward by Chinua Achebe) and misogynism in the text.
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Derek Gladwin: Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper (31/03/2015)

source: Arts One Open    2015年3月31日
This is a lecture on these two texts for Arts One at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver (Canada).
Derek Gladwin begins this lecture by talking about the various "waves" of feminism in the West, then discusses how woman has become the "other," according to Beauvoir. He then gives some background on S. Weir Mitchell, the doctor who treated Gilman (and whom she mentions in "The Yellow Wall-Paper"), and his approach to treating neurasthenia. Gladwin also discusses various styles of narration and how we might think about the narrator in Gilman's story, as well as the "feminist gothic" and how we can see elements of that in "the Yellow Wall-paper" as well.
For a link to a video of this lecture *with* slides, please click here: http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/beauv...
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