1. Postmodernisms HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2011 Dr. Perdigao April 25-27, 2011

2. René Magritte, Time Transfixed (1939) http://vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw/hlee/course/th6_520/sty_20c/painting/magritte-01X.jpg

3. René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937) http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/magritte-notrepro.jpg

4. René Magritte, The False Mirror (1928) http://www.rogallery.com/_RG-Images/Magritte/Magritte-The_False_Mirror.jpg

5. Escher, Eye (1946) http://www.globalgallery.com/prod_images/600/esc-e55.jpg

6. Disturbia? http://www.filmposters.it/imgposter/grandi/donnie-darko-poster-1.jpg

7. The Bunny! http://tf.org/images/covers/tf.org-Donnie-Darko-free-2008.jpg

8. All things Darko http://www.posters.ws/images/981539/donnie_darko.jpg

9. Way! http://boston.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=948522

10. On Donnie http://www.donniedarkofilm.com/ Eye—in poster, eye on engine, dream with sky (back to Magritte?) Graham Greene’s The Destructors Grandma Death The Philosophy of Time Travel Hawking’s A Brief History of Time Wormhole, time travel “Where’s Donnie?”

11. The End of the World…? Pleasantville (1998) “The first thing we have to do is to separate out the things that are pleasant from the things that are unpleasant” Fin de siècle mentality? Twenty-first century: 1950s culture Normative identities for women, men Social constructedness Performativity Film begins with 20 th century contexts, famine, poverty Escapism through the show (from familial problems) Pirandellism? Geography class End of Main Street is its beginning Overemphasis on order

12. Contextualizing Utopia 50s programming, twin beds, Brady Bunch scandal Shifts with rock and roll, rebel culture Books filled in when remembered: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye Book burning, censorship Garden—Eden, Eldorado? Eve offering apple, replayed, “go on, try it.” “You don’t deserve this paradise.” Question of values, “holding onto those values that made this place great”

13. “Across the Universe” Civil Rights in 1950s “Whitey” “colored girlfriend,” “no coloreds” Now violence, threat of rape, looting, mob, book burning—dystopic Non-changes view of history in classes, favoring continuity over alteration, new rules Mural on wall: woman, kiss, records, bowling, town hall into water, Catcher in the Rye, Huck Finn, Moby Dick burning Now court system, first trial ( Oresteia? ) After court case is resolved, color tv, images of world, history Multiple possibilities at end? Prototype for “The Garden of Forking Paths”? Donnie Darko ?

14. Mapping Ideas about civilization, self and other, civilized and savage: Of Cannibals ; Frankenstein ; Heart of Darkness ; Valery; Spengler; Freud; Serenity ; Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber ; Slaughterhouse-Five ; Pleasantville Politics and power: The Prince ; Hamlet ; Marx and Engels; Notes from Underground ; Heart of Darkness ; Pleasantville Religion: Don Quixote ; Hamlet ; Candide ; Frankenstein; Heart of Darkness ; Sartre; Slaughterhouse-Five ; Donnie Darko Science: Candide ; Frankenstein ; Darwin; Freud; Notes from Underground ; The Garden of Forking Paths ; Donnie Darko Gender politics: Don Quixote ; Hamlet ; Candide ; Sophia; Von Hippel; Frankenstein ; Notes from Underground ; Heart of Darkness ; Pleasantville Identity crises and play: Don Quixote ; Hamlet ; Six Characters in Search of an Author ; Slaughterhouse-Five ; Donnie Darko ; Pleasantville Ideas about textuality, the place of art, literature: Don Quixote ; Six Characters in Search of an Author ; Slaughterhouse-Five ; The Garden of Forking Paths ; Pleasantville