Essays on Blue Velvet

Abstract

Modernity and Post modernity are the two social, political, economic and cultural phases in respectively 20th and 21st centuries. The initial phase of cinema was much influenced by phase of modernity and the later was influenced by the aspects of post modernity. The paper tries to analyse these modernity and post-modernity in cinematic context. For this comparative analysis the researcher has taken two cinematic works. The initial focus of the paper is the study of the term modernity with its elements. These elements have been analyzed in the context of Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic work. The paper then discusses ...

Karen Brennan’s short story “Floating” is from a collection of short stories entitled “Wild Desire” (1991), which collectively could be defined as stories about independently-minded women, including the main character in “Floating” who escapes from her tedious, ordinary, but unhappy everyday existence into a world of fantasy. This story is narrated by a woman who we find has had a miscarriage, which has so deeply affected her mental state that she fantasizes, not only about still having the baby she has lost, but believing she is able to levitate, thus symbolically escaping from the constraints of her currently unhappy reality. By using ...

In Karen Brennan’s short story “Floating” the narrator is a woman who

awakes levitating followed by her hearing the sound of a baby crying at the back of the house. She brings it in and changes its clothes. It is still alive after two days of crying. She suddenly notices that she could levitate as her toes touched the ceiling. She is wearing new black boots that her husband told her remind her of a nun She attracts her husband’s attention to her new found power but he does not seem amazed or surprised. It even sees that he does not notice as all.

After waking, she moves around her house, floating past her coffee table

which she describes as a “gracious, but unpretentioius arrangement,” ...