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| Norman Mailer's thoughts on Vietnam |
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| any attempt to discuss Vietnam rationally is illogical and obscene |
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Telling the story (scenes not historical narrative)
Dialogue in full (Conversational not quotes and statements)
First-person
Everyday details (indicates the status of character's lives)
novels not relevant? -> drama, poetry to reach middle class
Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion |
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emphasis on realism
Hearts and Minds, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde,
Move away from Studio System
Sexuality |
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From Wallace Steven's poem "Anecdote of the Jar"
Jar is an empty vessel--you put meaning into it
Khesanh is like the jar: an alien presence in Vietnam, the other side is the aggressor, moving in on the jar
Dylan felt like the jar: people tried to put meaning to his music |
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destroys mind's ability to tell between signifier and signified
visual processing is a no-go
Music on LSD sucks. I mean it's psychedelic. |
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1955
realism: environment, people, black & white color |
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Simon and Garfunkel's "sound of silence" reminiscent of folk time
youth alienation
signifiers, signified: moving walkway=conveyor belt |
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1969
communalism and the "quality of failture"
counterculture |
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violence, militancy in movements
before: films take side of law and order
New hollywood: embracing/romanticizing the outlaw |
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2 currents: traditional, w/ father at head (opposed to Alice's w/ hippies and communal living); radical: go to family for help, not law
appealed to Black population (close family could overtake conventional white america) |
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| 2 (political)trends in white ethnic community |
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populist: working class whites, critiques elites
pluralism: ethnic minority identity, salad bowl, not melting pot |
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| social/collective identity |
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bridge between individuals and groups
identifying w/ a set of people with whom you share a common experience |
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| person-based social identities |
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| behaviors, traits, hopes, beliefs, what kind of person am I? |
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In relation to others
boyfriends/ girlfriend, mother/ daughter, doctor/ patient
we are infused with signifiers for these |
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depersonalized sense of self
not forged from interpersonal relationships but from common ties to a shared membership |
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they've moved up economically
theme song: gospel sound signifies black community
moving on up: first, heaven, then out of slavery, now economically/socially
ironic that now all they care about is money |
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Chicano, la raza (the people), huelga (strike), carnalismo (brotherhood), Azlan (homeland)
not one unified movement |
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| Farmworker & chicano movement |
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goals: union contract, fair wages, better working conditions
nonviolent protests
cesar chavez: this was a peneance |
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| Urban Barrios and chicano youth |
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goals: political and economic control of the institutions in communities
militant
masculine movement
brown berets: militant, disciplined, masculine |
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| Chicana Femenism and women's activism |
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goals: recognition of women's integral value and importance within movement
chicana workshops, creative fiction, journals
some saw it as betrayal of goals of chicano movement |
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administrative
1. personnel shifts: loyalists to white house
2. budget impoundments: cuts to depts. he didn't like
3. reorganization: to fit his views, could move # between consolidated departments
4. regulation writing: to change what is passed |
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Should have become head of FBI, but given to Nixon loyalist
He gives info on Watergate to Woodward (journalist) |
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Michael Kerr
New Journalism
Reporting a full story, not just facts/statistics
New view of war
"Khesanh became like the jar in Wallace Stevens' poem. It took dominion everywhere"-it became the most important thing to win for a while |
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Allen Ginsberg
Ginsberg's experiences/ experiences of Beat Poets (Keruouac)
Obscenities-sexual references |
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| The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test |
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Tom Wolfe
New Journalism: literary techniques to convey specific personalities, non-conventional
reports on Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
Kesey: "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph"
Everyone is looking for meaning in everything |
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| "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" |
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Joan Didion
Describes Haight-Ashbury area, not as fun and free as everyone else believes--proposes that children created this new society because no one taught them about traditional society
Kindergardener on LSD, sick girl, teenagers w/o money |
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Pauline Kael
New Hollywood
People are looking for something in movies--want to respond, to "feel", looking for something besides a contrived, big-studio-machine-created film for the masses
Business has "soured the spirit of most big movies"
--Relates to Alice's Restaurant: The Quality of Failure: people can appreciate failures and mistakes |
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Gay Talese
Joseph Columbo (boss) and Italian-Americans and the mafia
Italian-American Civil Rights League: social identity/action. Felt they'd been "playing by the rules and losing"
complained about "mafia" label |
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