Prepare 300-500 word original reflection on the readings. Your response must be to the reading(s) but you have many avenues into it, including your considered appraisal of it, connecting it to other readings or screenings, extending and illustrating its major points, or locating it within broader themes as they emerge in our class.
Prompt 1:
1. Mark Rowland, “The Beasts Within . . . Nicolas Cage.” American Film 15.9 (June 1990): 22-24; 27-29.
2. Andrew Spicer, “Neo Noir 2: Postmodern Film Noir.” Film Noir. Routledge, 2002. 149-174.
FILM: Red Rock West (1993)
Prompt 2:
o Paul McDonald, “Prestige Stardom and the Awards System.” Hollywood Stardom. Wiley, 2013. 215-253.
o Manohla Dargis, “Method and Madness.” Sight and Sound 5.6 (June 1995): 6-8.
o Tom Conley, “Not Leaving Las Vegas.” Psychoanalytic Review 83.4 (August 1996):
621-625.
FILM: Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Prompt 3:
o Geoff King Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster. I.B. Tauris
o Fred Schruers, “Dangerous, Dedicated and Wild at Heart, Nicolas Cage is a Hollywood Samurai.” Rolling Stone, November 16, 1995. 92-96+.
FILM: Con Air 1997
Prompt 4:
o David McGowan, “Nicolas Cage – Good or Bad? Stardom, Performance, and Memes in the Age of the Internet.” Celebrity Studies 8.2 (2017): 209-227.
o Emma Brockes, “Nicolas Cage: ‘People Think I’m Not in on the Joke.’” The Guardian, July 20, 2013. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/20/nicolas-cage-frozen-ground
FILM: Joe (2013)
Prompt 5:
o H.P. Lovecraft, “The Colour Out of Space” (1927)
o David Marchese, “Nicolas Cage on his Legacy, his Philosophy of Acting and his
Metaphorical – and Literal – Search for the Holy Grail.” New York Times Magazine, August 7, 2019. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/07/magazine/nicolas-cage- interview.html
FILM: Color Out Of Space (2019)
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