You've all seen the disclaimer; as wikipedia points out, to announce a film's modification, a format screen will state: "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen." Depending on content and time, the disclaimer will add: "...to run in the time allotted and for content.", or, "...and to run in the time allotted", or, "...and edited for content".
The same applies here. This presentation has been modified from its original version; it was FIRST given as a visual, multimodal, experiential talk at the PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association joint conference as part of the Science Fiction & Fantasy: Special Area: True Blood panel on feminism and femininity.
It's the very same presentation I posted a few days back in two, no, actually three parts (because the reference page that appears just below this post corresponds to the presentation as it's formatted here), only better. Better because it's all-in-one. No more inconvenient shifting back and forth between paper, to PowerPoint, back to paper, etc. to follow along with the content.
This new-and-improved version is as close to the original as I can get using the Blogger platform since it integrates the paper and PowerPoint content in a way that flows just about as seamlessly - albeit in completely written as opposed to verbally delivered form - as it did at the conference.
So, if you're thirsty for a fresh, feminist spin on scenes from Seasons 1 & 3 of True Blood exploring:
...a world where Bon Temps is the setting for a modern day epiphany of the
Demeter-Persephone myth in which we viscerally encounter its characters & themes “like they are real, not just an archetype or a symbol, but a psychic force still making their way in the world today” (Ward, 2006, p. 146) in two sexual story arcs – one centering on Tara Thornton,
the other on Sookie Stackhouse - both culminating in scenes featuring a
white nightgown reminiscent of a wedding dress......
...each bearing both similarities and marked differences & resonating in different ways with the classic story of descent,
death and rebirth from 7th-5th century BCE (Austen, 1990); both versions of it...
...the well-known patriarchal Greek version of Persephone's abduction and rape (Austen, 1990) and the feminist reimagining of the original pre-Olympian sacred story in which the Goddess had a joyous and free sexuality (Gadon, 1989).
LOOK NO FURTHER!
Cycling between True Blood and the mythology it enlivens,
the presentation below looks at a few standout elements of both carnal encounters & explores the charged concepts and themes of
sex and sexuality they illuminate:
- virginity
- sex-roles & stereotypes
- pleasure
- initiation
- the erotic
- violence, dominance and rape
- attitudes toward sexually autonomous women
- the sacred sexual
Persephone’s mysteries confront us with the divide
between Goddess and patriarchal consciousness.
Drawing upon 800,000 years of art; a
collection of the world’s images of the sacred feminine – both archaic &
contemporary - and myth, histories, and poetry; prose, chants, guided meditations & ritual
to help you experience this talk inwardly & respond with feelings and imagination, it will:
- introduce you to woman and sex-positive cultures
- contextualize modern notions about sex & gender
revealed in True Blood within the shift from egalitarian to dominator societal
structure
- identify models
for sexual and body sacrality – both female and male
IT'S GOT HIGH-IMPACT IMAGES & CUSTOM ANIMATION!
IT'S GOT SHARP ANALYSIS & CREATIVE SYNTHESIS!
IT'S GOT WIT AND TRUEBIE HUMOR!
IT DOESN'T (UNFORTUNATELY) HAVE THE BILLY IDOL SONG - WHITE WEDDING - THAT ORIGINALLY PLAYED OVER MY RIFF ON TRUE BLOOD'S OPENING CREDITS WITH-A-TWIST (BOO, HISS)
So without further ado...powerpoint and paper married for blogger
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