Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 16:10:38 +1000 From: Rob Schaap <rws-AT-comserver.canberra.edu.au> Subject: Re: M-I: Request for help G'day Gary! >Was talking to my old mate Bob Leech about you on Saturday! Bob's an impressive customer, I reckon. Give him my best when you seem him next, eh? >Now your request. Bertell Ollman (?) has an article on teaching marxism >that I could probably dig up and fax to you if you send me a fax number. I'd love it! Ta. Please mark it for my attention on 06201 5119. >But from memory he recommends beginning where the students are. In your >case this would mean of course their postion in the scheme of things >Australian. I when doing my annual talk on Marxist approaches to media >texts always emphasise that Marxism is intrinsically political and so >anything I have to say should challenge them and if they think at some >stage I am being baised that might mean that I am disturbing some >preconception. Good one. I usually say something like this in the first lecture of each course I give - it's more important still in this one-off effort, so thanks for the reminder. >As for Freud we do a lecture on Freudian analysis. I have a deep respect >for Freud because he was and is such a scandal to bourgeois thought. >Moreover my students still get disturbed by Freudian ideas. The Oedipus >Complex is central for understanding Hollywood cinema. The kitchen scene >from Rebel without a Cause is especially worth showing. Again if you wish >I will video the sequence and post it down to you. I'm a film philistine (I can hear whatever standing I had in your eyes dissolving). But please make the effort only if you think I'm gonna understand it and if it'll fit usefully into the single hour I have. I did see the 4-hour Hamlet the other day - and spent the balance of an ethanolic evening raving about it to anyone who'd listen. >My students though were primarily female and wanted to know about the >position of girls in the family. Alas like Freud I am no expert here. Not an issue. The class is too big, and time too short, for anything approaching a seminar. And I'm not a tutor in the course, anyway. What I say is all they'll get out of it all. Sad, really. Thanks again mate. Rob. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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