We shall we watching the film The Fountainhead for this session, you are not required to watch it in advance. However it would be useful for you to get some background on the author of the book and the screenplay, Ayn Rand, beforehand. She has been hugely influential to contemporary American politics.
As I outlined in the last session, we now change emphasis a little. Having provided you with plenty of samples of critical method in the first part of the course, it is time for you to flex your own critical muscles. Don't worry, there's no change of format at all, I simply require you to blog as you have been doing, but instead of description coupled by bemusement, I'm hoping that you can show capabilities in comprehension and evaluation which might even be a bit more fun, as if you were writing for a critical magazine for instance. So from here on, I will not be looking for you to simply describe the story, but for you to demonstrate an overall critical viewpoint. Of course you can borrow one, but you still have to make it your own (as they say on X Factor) utilizing your contextual understanding of what Rand and Hollywood stood for, stand for, and maybe even the ongoing consequences of this particular cultural product. And do not think for a second that your discussion has to be one sided, the most entertaining blogs are those clouded in ambiguity, yet where shafts of illumination fabulously appear.
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