Submitted by van on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 22:33

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For my English 20 class, I had to write a paper defending if Shakespeare's King Lear fits Aristotle's description of a tragedy. I enjoyed reading Poetics by Aristotle. And while I'd never read Lear before, I liked it for its universal themes of familial gratitude and justice. I argue that King Lear does fit Aristotle's tragedy description because it has a character, Lear, whose disposition leads to his downfall. Also, the plot follows the requirements of a tragedy having a fall to misfortune, a reversal, and a discovery. In addition, it's drama genre allows King Lear to be an active story, that isn't narrated, allowing the story to unfold more seamlessly. My video project discusses the congruity between King Lear and Aristotle's criteria for a tragedy.

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Submitted by Gray Graziani on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 17:56

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Here is my video collage on Irish Poets

I chose "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W.B Yeats and "Casualty" by Seamus Heaney to work with. The first is meant to talk about the connection to the land in Irish poetry, as well as a link to a mystic past. The second is about the Irish people, especially their rebellious spirit that often comes out in the poetry.

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Submitted by jenny starr on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 10:55

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If I called my collages blood sweat, and tears- I take it all back. All of it.

If you're into the Beatnik thing, you might like my video. Otherwise, it's a little large. But for every person who actually watches it, it makes the strain of making it a little more worthwhile. :)
American Howl

Happy watching.

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Submitted by Gena N. on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 03:40

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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold


My Movie


"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold is one of my favorite poems. My interpretation of this poem is a struggle between past and present, pessimism and optimisim, misery and joy, and finally, the delicate movements and sounds of the beach. My images and music hopefully illustrate these motives while provoking a transition from sadness to hope and ending with the discovery of love.

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Submitted by maryzim on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 - 01:29

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This is my (hopefully successful) attempt to get my video collage online.

Here is my Video Collage

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Submitted by Sam Canipe on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 22:32

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The third collage that I did on the intersection of Literature and culture served as my inspiration for this project. I have become very fascinated with the idea of the American Dream and how it plays out in our culture today. It struck me that some of my favorite books play to this idea, The Great Gatsby being a very obvious one; but also My Antonia and Beloved, as well as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. My Antonia is a story whose heroine serves as a representative of the hopes and dreams for a better life that many people came to America with. Beloved is less obvious: to me this story represents the stuff that no one wants to talk about- African Americans had their own American Dreams- but they weren't to dream, werent allowed to do anything. Sethe's act of defiance, her first claim on individuality- something that America promises- is to kill her own child. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington examines the integrity of America. We founded this country on free speech, on good principles, but what has it become? So here it goes...

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Submitted by Ned on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 14:05

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As in the case of my playlist, my initial idea/draft for this assignment led me to a slightly different final product. I had thought that I would make a video collage that attempted to represent the Victorian period, so that's what I started out trying to do. But as I worked, I realized that the Victorian period to a great extent was really defined initially by its contrast to the Romantic period. So, instead of having a collage that encompassed the Victorian period, I made a collage that starts with the Romantic period as a brief introduction and then shows the transition into the Victorian period.

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Submitted by vwooten on Sunday, May 7, 2006 - 00:33

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My video can be seen here.

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Submitted by Jen Kling on Friday, May 5, 2006 - 04:47

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Here's my video collage, The Written Word.

With this collage, I'm trying to say something about the influence that the written word has had on history. Books have been, up until recently, the place where humankind has stored all of the knowledge that it's gained over the centuries. Without books, we wouldn't have any history, any sense of how people on the other side of the world live, any idea that there is a common, collective experience called living. Also, though, writing is how we communicate--we send and receive letters, we learn and teach by reading and writing, we express our most true experiences via the written word. But all too often, I think people lose sight of how much the written word acts and has acted as a shaper and influencer, not only of culture, but of humanity. To try to bring out that connection, I paired pictures and videos having to do with the written word with Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire," a song that is all about having an awareness of what has and is shaping (mostly western) culture. I attempted also to, after a fashion, give my video a chronological order; I wanted the viewer to understand that the written word had an origin, grew to encompass the world, and now is slowly being replaced by computer technology. That's why, for my credits song, I chose "Video Killed the Radio Star," sung by the UNC Clefhangers. The song is about the end of an era, and, in a way, I think that with the advent of computers, our generation may be seeing the end of the era of books, of paper and ink. So I also tried to mark this ending with my collage. Ultimately, I just wanted to celebrate books and the written word and point out how crucial they have been in the creation of this common idea that we have of humanity.

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Submitted by jrtaylor on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 22:34

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I did my video project on the poet and writer Sylvia Plath. Her works include the novel, The Bell Jar, and a vast array of poems that can be read in the publication, The Collected Poems. Sylvia led a short and colorful life filled with creativity, style, depression and drama. Her story is not all that complicated, Sylvia just couldn't find a resolution that suited her, other than death. My short film focuses on the normalcy of her life as a student, wife, mother and writer. Someone just like us who was plagued by depression in a time before modern medicine could have saved her life. I hope you enjoy the video, photographs, poetry reading and song selection. Be sure to listen to the song as the credits are shown at the end. Click on the link below to view...

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