Show _The Gods Must Be Crazy_: excellent for the hermenuetics of a
_______________ that otherwise appears as a Coke bottle.
Encourage everyone to interpret _Schindlers's List_ in terms of the wrong
understanding that Mike Frank listed--not as a means of understanding the film
in a normative context, but as a means of understanding a particular set of
viewers.
Warn students not to apply that norm to every set of viewers and show a film
that ironically shows a normative context for reading a film--Raoul Julia
explaining to Neil Hurt that the films he admires are Nazi propaganda (_Kiss of
the Spider Woman_).
Show a film that redefines other films by recontextualizing them: _Atomic Cafe_.
Tell everyone before viewing the film that _The Texas Chainsaw Massacare_ is an
allegory about tuberculosis.
Tell everyone before viewing the film that _Hamlet_ with Laurence Olivier is a
film about Neville Chamberlain.
Explain to everyone before viewing the film that _Reefer Madness_ is a serious,
scientific documentary.
Your results may vary.
JMC
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