Sitney, “Ritual and Nature”
1. What are some characteristics of the American psychodrama in the 1940s?
- Passive protagonist, dreams, sexual metaphors, and rituals
2. What does Sitney mean by an “imagist” structure replacing narrative structure in Choreography for the Camera?
- Choreography for the Camera does not have a plot or narrative – instead it uses/focuses on images of dancers.
3. According to Sitney, Ritual in Transfigured Time represents a transition between the psychodrama and what kind of film?
- Architectonic film
4. Respond briefly to Sitney’s reading of Ritual in Transfigured Time (27-28); Is his interpretation compatible with your experience of the film?
- I would not have known about the Greek gods and mythical creatures and feel that his interpretation was somewhat similar to mine. He definitely got more out of it than I did and is better at articulating the symbols and what not in the film.
Sitney, “The Magus”
5. Paraphrase the paragraph on p. 90 that begins “The filmic dream constituted…” in your own words.
- A lot of filmmakers of the time thought of the camera as if it were capturing what the human eye sees. The camera could be used for point of view and now could act as the subject of film (by providing us with a subjective point of view).
6. According to Sitney, what is the ultimate result at the end of Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome?
- All of the different gods and mythical creatures become one unified magus.
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