I am waiting for Marti to return from the Fitness Center so we can go to breakfast. If I finish this post before she gets back, I will go to breakfast without her.
Our working group consists of 4 other women; Marti from Georgetown Day, Stuart, a librarian from Key School in Annapolis, Suzi from an elementary school in Boca Raton, Florida and Ren, a college professor from the University of Rochester in NY. We all seem pretty compatible and we are all staying in the same dorm, so it makes getting together pretty easy. Last night we watched "Lost Weekend" in a viewing room in the university library. Another tough movie to watch. Both "Lost Weekend" (1945) and "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995) have to do with alcoholism, but with very different outcomes. Our job now is to compare and contrast the films, looking at attitudes and influences of the time period each movie was made, collect critical reviews, etc. On Thursday we make a group presentation of our findings.
The other assignments involve watching documentaries about various themes in film and other media--family, violence, gender, sex, addiction, etc. I have selected "DreamWorlds" (how images in popular culture--namely music videos--influence those who watch them) and "The Celluloid Closet" (a documentary showing the "changing face of cinema sexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990's"). We have to analyze these documentaries in two papers, each due by the end of the summer. Our final project is a case study on one of the themes (similar to the alcohol addiction project). I am still deciding my topic, although I have several ideas. I will let you know as my ideas evolve.
Ken called last night. He was in a campground just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. He had spent the day at Penland, including a visit with Cynthia Bringle, a fairly renowned potter.
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