Post Class, 2/7 Ann

I was very interested to the guest speaker that came to our class on Thursday to talk about post-modern architecture and how the rules we read about in Jencks apply to famous architecture around the world.  At first I kind of wondered why we were learning so much about architecture and how this related to our class.  Dr. Casey did mention that these concepts can be applied to things other than architecture however and can probably be applied to many different types of media.   After class I began to think of how theses concepts could apply to other forms of media.  The type of media I could most easily relate these rules to would be film.  I’m not sure if I am entirely correct in my relations but I came up with examples for a few of the rules.  The rule that I had the easiest time relating to a film was anthropomorphism.  Inanimate objects are often times given the traits of humans in fictional films.  Examples of this would be the movie Cars, where the cars are given faces or the movie The Wizard of Oz where the trees sometimes have spaces and can speak.  I also think there are some movies that have an absent center.  This may also be a stretch but there are some movies that have a beginning and an end but you don’t really know what has happened in the middle.  An example of this may be Seventeen Again.   We see the characters when they are in high school and then once they are grown up and have children but we never see what happens in the years in between.  I’m not sure whether or not these examples make a lot of sense. I may need some clarification of how these rules can be applied to things other than architecture.