September 15

Please watch/read:

• Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983) [80 min]
• Silvia Federici, “Wages Against Housework” (1975)
  
• Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
  
• Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (1979)
• Beth Capper, “Domestic Unrest: Social Reproduction and the Temporalities of Struggle in Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames,” Third Text 31:1 (2017)
  

Please select one scene from Born in Flames that you were intrigued by and would be interested in analyzing. From this scene, please make a screenshot of one still (or frame).  Write (at least) five observations on different formal features. These might include lighting, framing, depth, color. Please email these to me by 10am on Tuesday. 

You can find the film on Princeton’s Kanopy.  I encourage you to watch the film uninterrupted on the big screen and have booked Rocky/Mathey on Sunday night (7-10pm) if you want to arrange a class screening.


Due Friday, Sept 18:  Close Reading Exercise