The Golden House - General Flashcards
What was the message behind Marina Abramovic’s 2010 performance - ‘The Artist is Present’?
- confronting the idea of connection and relationships in the modern world
What does Marina Abramovic aim towards in her performance art?
- considering the physical limitations of the body
What was the aim of the 2010 performance art ‘No Fun’?
Eva and Franco Mattes
- a social experiment to see how people would react to suicide
- the utilisation of suicide and hanging as a performance art
What was the message behind Marina Abramovic’s 1974 performance Rhythm 0?
- examine the limitations of human character when given complete control and authority over the body
How does Rushdie show he is oscillating between the influences of modernism and postmodernism?
- utilises a Gatsby-esque narrator who wants to recreate the Golden family’s story in a “mockumentary” style film
How does Rushdie employ the visual spectacle of D Golden’s suicide?
- to highlight both the strain of the metanarratives, and the strain of deconstruction
Where is the similarity to Gatsby and where is the subtle difference?
- the role of René’s film in the text has frequently been aligned with Nick’s book of Jay Gatsby’s story. Both characters take the role of intradiegetic narrators, though René’s film is embedded at a metadiegetic level.
How does the visual implicate the reader in the narrative?
- we become implicit in crimes and an observer of a suicide
- gives a sense of immediacy
The use of the film script disrupts the diegetic levels so we question the ontological status of the film script - what does this tell us about ourselves?
- that there is a plurality of existences and we experience a loss of certainty of the ability to define the truth of a singular experience because there is not one ie. we cannot be defined through a grand narrative
What do we have to remember about the relationship between Rushdie and metamodernism?
- it is not a relationship of influence - we might say “it is enlightening to apply the contemporary ideas of van der Akker and Vermeulen”
What was Vertov’s ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ and what significance does it have?
- experimentalSovietsilentdocumentary film
- directed byDziga Vertov
- work’squick-cut editing,self-reflexivity, and emphasis onform over contentwere all subjects of criticism
- unabashedlyavant-gardestyle
- emphasises that film can goanywhere - suggests why Rushdie decides to use the visual form as a medium, has the power to distort, to alienate, to follow life into places literature never dared to venture
What does Leo Robson say in the New Statesman Review about Rushdie’s attitude to ‘gender warriors’?
- says that Rushdie believes freedom of speech is curtailed by gender warriors
In what other of his novels do we see a similar assault on a tarnished age?
- Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015) (supernatural jinns)
- Fury (2001) - contemporary New York City as the epicentre of globalisation and all of its tragic flaws
What does Peggy Phelan argue about the relationship between power and visibility?
- visibility does not equal power
- we cannot categorise people through what is visible, their visual representation ie. gender/ sexuality/ race - this erases the power of what is unspoken and unseen
What did Kuleshov say that montage made it possible to do?
- because montage made it possible “both to break down and to reconstruct, and ultimately to remake the material” of cinema
