Submitted by Debbie Olson on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 9:00am
Presentation Title:
The Tracy Fragments as Gothic Escape
Throughout his 2007 film, The Tracy Fragments, Bruce McDonald depicts fifteen year old Tracey Berkowitz as a gothic horror heroine, constantly attempting to escape a maze of alleys, school corridors, bus aisles and routes, and roads, searching, yet trapped within the Symbolic Order. While caught within the Symbolic Order Tracy attempts to use magazines, film formulas, comics, TV, and popular music to create narratives of her life.
Submitted by Erin Hogan on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 11:52am
Presentation Title:
The Voice, Body, and Ventriloquism of Marisol in Tómbola (Lucia 1962, Spain)
Young Marisol (Pepa Flores), immensely popular amongst juvenile spectators while also dictator Francisco Franco’s favorite actress, was an icon of 1960’s Spain. The child star’s third film, Tómbola (Lucia 1962), is a retelling of Aesop’s “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” In the feature, Marisol is a rambunctious girl who witnesses a museum burglary, threatens to inform on the thieves, and is kidnapped and silenced by the robbers as a result.
