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I've picked my critical approach (shame theory) and my film (Black Panther), but I'm not sure how to get going with this.
From what the Critical Model Packet says about shame theory, it seems that it could work pretty good. In the movie, once T'challa learns what happened to his uncle, he feels shame because of what his father did to him. Also, it looks like Killmonger is totally motivated by shame from many sources (father's death, history of slavery, Wakanda's failure to help end racism), but his anger makes him want to rule the world. I can see already that this is going to take a lot of thought, once I know what to do next.
A few relevant articles:
‘Black Panther’ is on the hunt for a best picture Oscar, no matter what happens with the ‘popular film’ prize
https://www.postbulletin.com/entertainment/black-panther-is-on-the-hunt-for-a-best-picture/article_e607bdfc-543f-5eb7-8348-df1de330877f.html
Slaves of History
I'm trying to meet the English 102 requirement this semester, and this is my research blog. The instructor says that if I follow the prompts for the blog, it will help me with all of the projects for the class. I sure hope so. I think that I write okay, but at my high school we didn't have to write any long papers, so I don't know if I should be worried about that. Anyway, I'm going to be writing my research paper on a film.
The reading I picked this week is an excerpt from Rick Bragg's book "All Over But the Shoutin'." I've been trying to avoid reading or watching depressing stuff for a while now, really ever since my mom died, but the title seemed to jump out at me, so I went with it. It was sad. There's something awful about true stories that center on a terrible parent. Bragg's father is dying, and he's just the same to his son as he ever was. Bragg wants to resolve all the hurts from his childhood, but, as he's trying to come up with a way to do that, he gradually realizes that it's not going to happen.
When my mom was dying, she was in hospice care at home. We were all taking care of her, which was beautiful (I know that sounds strange, but it was beautiful in a lot of ways, mainly because she was a very good parent, definitely NOT the monster of our childhoods, and we felt as though we were doing something almost . . . holy with her--I can't think of a better way to put it) and horrible at the same time. After three or four days, she stopped talking because of the pain meds, but she was still pretty alert and reacted to what we said to her. I think we all managed to say everything we needed to say before she reached the point where she couldn't take it in. But, like Rick Bragg, I have issues that I know I will never get rid of unless I let it go, and again like him, I'm reluctant to let go, but in my case, it's because what I'd be letting go is valuable to me but so complicated and messed up that it would kind of be like trying to cut it out of myself. If that makes any sense.
Maybe you can see why I've been avoiding these stories.
