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...aforementioned article, Carr quotes Robert Rosen, Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television: “Violence can be a corollary of gravity and seriousness… There is increasingly a choreography of violence, a way of aestheticizing it, that makes it more acceptable and worthy of recognition.” The problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence?...
...Rosen might have amended his statement to say that violence can be a corollary of gravity and seriousness only if there is a coherent narrative motive. Otherwise, the film drifts into the horror genre where violence is composed as spectacle for shock value. “Flags of Our Fathers,” the Clint Eastwood historical drama about Marines at Iwo Jima, is possibly the most graphic war movie since “Saving Private Ryan.” But since the gore in both films finds its source in a historical event, the viewer doesn?...
...Latina, HRCSA, and RAZA were joined by rookies from the Black Students Association (BSA) and the Italian American Association as they sought to impress the palates of Antoniu and three other judges. The panel included Winthrop House Master and Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs Stephen P. Rosen ’74, Harvard University Police Department Sergeant Kevin P. Bryant, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94. “I was invited because I’m an expert on eating,” said Liu, who teaches Life Sciences...
...them and their siblings as a scorecard showing who is more loved. Yet in most families, total equality is impossible to achieve. What to do? Be realistic, experts say, and accept that the playing field may not be level. The message, says Jennifer Coleman, a life-transition counselor at Rosen Law Firm in Raleigh, N.C., should be that no matter who spends what on whom, all the children are valued equally...
...because a faculty member requested it, but many student requests have come in as well.”THE ART OF THE BYPASSWhile many non-Core classes are approved as Core bypasses months before they are taught, there was a rush this fall to approve new courses already underway. Rosen Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies Kofi Agawu, who teaches African and African American Studies 175, “Introduction to African Music,” says that a number of students who signed up for his course “wondered if the course...