There's No Place Like Home

There is no place like home. There is no place like home. There is no place like home.
I really want to go home, so for me to read about Rushdie who cannot ever go home makes me really sad. However, it does help me see his points.

"The makers of The Wizard of Oz clearly decided that they were going to make their colour as colourful as possible, much as Michelangelo Antonioni did...The Wizrd of Oz likewise goes for bold, expressionistic splashes."

Rushdie would expect There is no place like home. There is no place like home. There is no place like home.
I really want to go home, so for me to read about Rushdie who cannot ever go home makes me really sad. However, it does help me see his points.

"The makers of The Wizard of Oz clearly decided that they were going to make their colour as colouful as possible, much as Michelangelo Antonioni did...The Wizrd of Oz likewise goes to be apart of the Indian culture because it fits into the standard type of movie the culture produces and enjoys watching. Bollywood is what it is called. This genre of film has a lot of color and shapes to help move the story. This has also shaped what cultures enjoy watching. The Indian culture being one of them. This especially applies to the song because this song is the first song sung by the munchikins. Munchikins are small and very playful and lively and colorful and happy characters. This brings in the appeal of a Bollywood auideince.


"If asked to pick single defining image of "The Wizard of Oz" most of us would, I suspect, come up with the Scarecro, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and Dorth s-skiping down the Yellow Brick Road."
Rushdie would say that this movie is one that people of all ages can appreciate. Each age watched devleops a different view on the movie. Whether that image is more knowledgeable or you see things from a different view point. Because of where this image is, it plays a role into the rst of the movie. It provides a level of entertainment, yet at the same time provides an example of the journey people go on to find home again.


"No I am watching a videotape, watching it with a notebook on my lap, a pen in one hand and a remote-control zaper in the other. I am subjecting The Wizard of Oz to the indigients of slow-motion, fast-forward, and freeze-frame...I am seeing things I never noticed before."
This further talks about how the movie eveloves from being something that a 10 year old boy or girl can enjoy and then become something that helps you understand the meaning of home. It talks about how the movie changes and its meaning changes. Rushdie would say that the children are singing the song from the movie because of globalization and how it affects cultures. He would say that the children will have a different opion if they go ever go back and re watch the movie...as does everyone, because the first time people do not notice everything the movie has to offer.

Do we like it?

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Fredric Jameson is a man who believes that the new is taking away from the old.  This image would hurt Jameson and cause him to begin to believe that the old way is dying. 

 

"The powerful alternative position that postmodernism is itself little more than one more stage of modernism proper (if not, indeed, of the even older romanticism); it may indeed be conceded that all the features of postmodernism I am about to enumerate can be detected, full-blown, in this or that preceding modernism"

 Jameson believes that since postmodernism came after modernism there is something lacking in the way postmodernism works.  

"As for the postmodern revolt against all that, however, it must equally be stressed that its own offensive features – from obscurity and sexually explicit material to psychological squalor and overt expressions of social and political defiance"

Jameson would believe that this painting is offensive due to his overt expression of social defiance.  He would hate "Mona Lisa" is being mocked and he would believe that this image is belittling the original work.   

Jack Bauer you are a man

In the series 24 Freud would absolutely say that Jack Bauer is a masculine male.  

He would say this because in Freud's terms he make Jack Bauer a man who is in a lot of control and called on to protect his family and his public.  This what Freud talks about when he talks about the ideal man.  Bauer is strong and independent and because of this he is relied upon by his family. 

Freud would say that his daughter is dealing with the Electra complex because of the struggle she has between her mom and her dad.  She feels like she needs to gain more of her father's approval and because of this pushes her mom father away.  

Freud would also mention how Bauer feels the need to control every part of life.  Freud would say that this is because of the lack of control Bauer feels.  He would say that because of constant focus on helping and controlling it would indicate that Bauer has had something happen in his past where he a feeling of being out of control affected him.  

The Public

http://www.dailykos.com/

So my first opinion on this is that it is apart of the public sphere. I think that the public sphere consists of anything that a person can say their opinion about. This opinion has to be credible and have access to everyone. Obviously because it is an opinion it does not have to be your opinion.

Now I'm going to talk about what Habermas would say.

"A portion of the public sphere comes into being in every conversation in which private individuals assemble to form a public body."

This would support that the blog is part of the public sphere. Blogs are conversation for people to read and decide whether or not they support. They help to gather opinions and support. They work to communicate a message to a larger group of people this way more than one person can have an opinion and this opinion can be peer reviewed.

He would say blogs are apart of the the "Public Opinion." Because that's what blogs are opinions on topics. Habermas says "It is no coincidence that these concepts of public sphere and public
opinion cam about [ in the eighteenth century]." These two go hand in hand and play off of each other.

Although it is apart of the public sphere I would say that blogs can take away from the public sphere because for some people it allows them to say things without feeling like it is connected to them. They can be more free with their words and opinion because they are not having to say this to a person. The instead are saying it and if you do not like it you can always hit the the hand "x" button. So for me I will always appreciate when someone say their own opinion, to my face and gives me a chance to respond and see their initial reaction/hear their initial argument.