Bad Bootje and Botox Bo presents: BSA 3

This week we were told that for out essays we are supposed to be making some kind of argument. An argument is a statement that we are affirming and supporting throughout the text. My Potential Arguments:  - An author puts their real life experience into their literature, even when it's not intentional. - An adaptation can never capture the original artist's voice completely because it is put through the      filter of someone else's imagination and experiences. - A purely conceptual idea will be supported by the author's personal experiences, beliefs and emotions to transform it into a very personal piece. - Coming of age movies are not the only types of stories to project their authors so clearly, and most stories are actually a type of coming of age for the main character, regardless of genre, age of the protagonist or setting. - Human beings use allegory to help spread key ideas and lessons so that the majority can learn and ultimately benefit from them....

We were looking for theoretical texts in class, things that are not technical guides on how to do what we want this year, but rather opinion pieces observing another artists' work or analyzing ideas rather than the technical execution of something. https://www.cmstudies.org/page/jcms http://filmjournal.org/ http://www.alphavillejournal.com/ Kathryn gave us these links to online film journals to use. The Alphaville site takes its name from the 1965 film by Jean-Luc Godard, as mentioned in the first journal they posted. This New-Wave film interested me because it chose to tell a very similar story to mainstream Hollywood at that point - a noir detective story. It does it in a new way though, that obeys the French New-Wave movement of which it's a part though. I think this film can very much help with my research as it uses the genre conventions its tied to to still tell a story that fits within the auteur's own ambitions. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com...

In Part VI we take a look at Alistair Fox's book Coming of Age Cinema in New Zealand :  Genre, Gender and Adaptation as my first theoretical text. I went to the City Library to look for some books about writing or filmmaking that might be related to my question, I found this one focusing on New Zealand Coming-of-Age Cinema and after reading some of the introduction I thought it would be a good option as one of my theoretical texts (even if what the author is writing on is about a genre which I don't intend to focus on). Unfortunately, I was unable to take out the book as it is a reference copy only, they told me I could scan specific pages of interest but I just snapped some photos with my phone of the sections I found most relevant to my own study. Function of Films Fox focuses on the Coming-of-Age film but he says some very interesting things when discussing the function of these films. When reading I considered the possibility that what he is saying might app...