Goals: To teach through the example of teaching stories found in Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Religion of how every youth must transverse the wasteland of their lives to adulthood and them selves. By using popular media I help to teach these ancient stories through technology adapted for our modern audience. The youths will learn to find more than style and gags from movies to lead their lives by, but lessons addressed by the hero’s. Youths will learn the road to redemption, justification, salvation, and justice by the power of their own self. Audio, visual, and written teaching methods will be applied. Special emphasis will be put on personal empowerment and understanding the roots of a co-dependant relationship.
The Cell
In this lecture we will discuss some of the main scenes from the movie The Cell in which Jennifer Lopez stars as a psychologist entering the mind of a serial Killer to find the location of his last victim before she dies. This movie will illustrate the various Jungian Archetypes found within the subconsciousness and how they act out when broken into pieces. We will see the inner child, the shadow, the anima/fairy god mother, and the bipolar aggressive/passive ego. This movie shows empowerment of a non Caucasian woman to save the day and her own life. We will discuss the fairy tale of Bluebeard and how it relates to their life choices, CO-dependence, shame and guilt, and to find the seed of their problems. To steal back the golden eggs of their soul from their evil stepmother/father ogres.Themselve! To no longer address the symptoms but the disease.
Company of Wolves
In this lecture we will watch the movie Company of Wolves based on the acclaimed novel by Angela Carter; The Bloody Chamber. In this movie and book are addressed fairy tales that keep their Jungian archetypes but put the stories into a feminist view point of empowerment. It is the story of the dreams of a young lady on the verge of adulthood and her place in the world. Fairy Tale elements are depicted here like the inner wild child coming out of the well of the subconscious, straying from the trail of society, danger of men in sheep’s clothing, and the removal of the witch from the mind. It is a movie on a young woman’s journey to adulthood. Class is asked to take readings home on Jungian and fairy tale archetypes and read handouts on fairy tales from Carter and Pinkola-Estes.
Beauty and The Beast
In this lecture we will watch the original black and white movie by Jean Cocteau of Beauty and the Beast. This will pick up on the readings of Bluebeard and develop those themes further. But this time, what happens when the mother is gone when a child goes through puberty. How she chooses her mates and gets caught in the grips of a father who will not let go of his daughter out of fear of losing her. The idea of double characters will be developed to illustrate the dual nature of the men women date. The best worst person. Themes of independence, and self caring will be developed.
Wizard Of Oz
In this lecture this lecture we will find out if a little girl can bring the country out of the Great Depression, we all can take our own lives into our own hands and save them. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz as a tale about a young girl who is going to walk silver shoes on a golden brick road to Washington to tell the man behind the curtain he should take the country off the gold standard and put us on the silver. On the way she will meet the farmer who thinks he has no brain, the factory worker who thinks he lost his heart in the city, and the local politician that means well, promises large, and thinks he has no courage to stand up to the senators and presidents. They will find out that everything they felt they were lacking was within their power all along. Dorothy will also confront the negative and healthy sides of her dead mother, in the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the East. The dual character theme again. This movie will show how a woman can empower herself and take power to fix a community or a world, back from spin doctors and fake leaders who only hide behind curtains. Also we will see how the healthy image of Aunty Em removes the witch in her mind as Dorothy throws water on the Wicked Witch, putting her back into the subconscious. This movie teachers women they can overcome their past and become heroes, it has always been within them to do so. Just click their heals, they can work on getting home. Suggestions for future readings, movies, and audios will be mentioned for self education.
In this lectture we will follow the text book examples of the writer to illustrate the Borderline Mother who can not equate life with death, the passive father who would rather "be second fiddle than not play in the band at all.", and the savior child. Helps bring healing through understanding to many.
Narnia
Lord of The Rings: An adventure for the Yuppie who has lost their way
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Snow on The Sahara
Song by Anggun
