CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now
Erin Hogan & Jessica Floyd
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216
Date & Time
October 24, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
All events begin at noon with lunch served at 11:30
“Jibooms, Barrels, and Arseholes: Singing Sex in Sea Chanteys”
Jessica Floyd, Language, Literacy, and Culture Ph.D. Program and Dresher Center Residential Graduate Fellow
This presentation will focus on the chapter titled "The Good Ship Venus" from my dissertation project. This chapter is a sea song that details rampant eroticism aboard the ship; each member of the sailing vessel is named and caught engaging in a specific sexual act. Within the confines of this particular sailing vessel, how is sex used as a mechanism of dominance and control and in what ways might the song either highlight historical truisms or flagrantly satirize cultural assumptions of the sailing world?
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“Spanish Movies”
Erin Hogan, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural CommunicationSpanish Movie (Ruiz Caldera 2009) is, like its character named “Ambrosio,” an irreverent and entertaining salad of intertextual references and stock characters for Spanish cinema freaks. Ruiz Caldera’s film illustrates many of the elements that form what I have called the new child-starred cinema (nuevo cine con niño), which is comprised of features from 1973-2010. My talk will examine how Spanish Movie speaks to national cinema, the relationship between genre and nation, the intertextuality of genre cinema and its function.
