FALL 2023
Posted in Bellocq's Ophelia, Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2023
Natasha Tretheway’s poem “Photograph of a Bawd Drinking Raleigh Rye” mostly describes a prostitute in one of E.J. Bellocq’s photographs of the same name. It ranges from her clothes, to her hair, to her surroundings. Tretheway comments on her necklace, armpit hair, and even the roundness of her cheeks. As a prostitute, she is accustomed […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Sep 3rd, 2023
The work itself being originally written for the stage, naturally, differences from the source to the screen are inevitable. Most notably, several settings within the play were able to be adapted further than what would’ve been possible in the Theatre. Similarly, a stark difference I noticed, going from reading to witnessing was language. In further […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 3rd, 2023
“REMEMBER TOMORROW, starting point for search: It no longer avails to start with creatures and prove God. Yet it is impossible to rule God out. The only possible starting point: the strange fact of one’s own invincible apathy-that if the proofs were proved and God presented himself, nothing would be changed. Here is the strangest […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Sep 3rd, 2023
In my opinion, one of the most noticeable differences between the play and the movie was the portrayal of each character. I did bring this point up in class but I failed to touch on the specifics of why this difference felt so major to me. While reading the play the development of the characters […]
Posted in Bellocq's Ophelia on Sep 3rd, 2023
The following except from the book reminds me of Blanche from “A Streetcar Named Desire”: “I wear my best silk gown for the picture— white silk with seed pearls and ostrich feathers— my hair in a loose chignon. Behind me, Bellocq’s black scrim just covers the laundry— tea towels, bleached and frayed, drying on the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2023
In Section Two, Chapter Six, of The Moviegoer, Binx explains how he believes he relates to Jewish people because he feels like an outcast. He claims that he can sense “Jewish vibrations” and that he was “a Jew in a previous incarnation,” (88-89). He goes so far as to say “it is true that I […]