Tag: 1970s
Sung, Not Seen: Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977)
(Intro to Film, Spring 2023) Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence (2021) asks a question: what if the first sound you ever heard was one of pain (Noyer)? The heroine, Alexis (Jasmine Savoy Brown), grew up deaf until her hearing returned during the murder of her family when she was ten. As a college student, she
How Moral Panic Hijacks Individual Autonomy
[A] human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good
and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork
orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and
juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since
this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. (Burgess)