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Another Great Day

Another Great Day. By Ruth Peyser. Outline. Questions for Close Analysis Images for Semiotic Analysis (systems of signs) Is she really alone ? (space) What do you think about this image of a housewife?

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Another Great Day

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  1. Another Great Day By Ruth Peyser

  2. Outline • Questions for Close Analysis • Images for Semiotic Analysis (systems of signs) • Is she really alone? (space) • What do you think about this image of a housewife? “I'm in a way saying things shouldn't be like this. It's a harsher side of life, but it's a reality.” - Ruth Peyser

  3. Questions for Close Analysis • 1. What kind of life is this housewife’s like? What does she do, and not do? • 2. Is her life completely uneventful? What populates her life? Where can we find ironies in it? • 3. How does the animation begin and end? Are there recurrent images? Why is the woman only in underwear?

  4. A Housewife’s Life • Listening to the radio, and/or watching TV • Eating breakfast; • Doing dishes; dancing with the TV; • Walking; • Nursing a baby/doll; • Reading a romance and fantasizing.

  5. “Another Great Day”; Call-in radio program Child care; TV images Sexual fantasies The busy sounds and street scenes alone at home, begins and ends her day with the radio program; Wonder word: “hostage” Wants to kill; The content of the romance. Her isolation The Ironies in her life

  6. The content of the romance • Before she could prevent him, he was kissing her wildly, possessively and passionately.  His lips were on her mouth, bruising it with a strength. . . His arms tightens her.  She could not even cry out.  A long long way, she could hear his voice, triumphantly, "I love you, you're glorious, adorable, a little white flower.

  7. Daily Activities (1): dancing = identification with TV images

  8. Daily Activities (2): eating commercials’ food images

  9. Daily Activities (3): Fantasizing? From smothering to strengling

  10. Daily Activities (4): loneliness Beginning . . .

  11. Daily Activities (4): loneliness Ending . . .

  12. She is actually not alone. . . her life completely penetrated by mass media and the public sphere.

  13. Sound Intrusion – of mass media • Call-in radio program; • Noises from TV program; • Telephone rings – seems to be hers, but it turns out to be the radio’s; • The words on the books—like hands on her body

  14. Image Contrast – mass media vs. the Housewife As the baby cries After the sexual fantasy scene

  15. Images of Penetration or Intrusion

  16. Lurking Sense of Danger • After the housewife cannot get the ‘wonder’ word:

  17. “The Ends Justify the Jeans”

  18. Interpellation of the Mannequins

  19. Male Spectators

  20. Social Superego

  21. What do you think about this image of a housewife? • Not always so lonely or passive in today’s society, but could still be conditioned by mass media. • The blurring of the boundaries between the public and private spheres could be true to every one in our age.  flows of information and commodities; ideology; mass media.

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