Your First Blog Post

Since the blog posts you are required to write in this course are rather short, it is imperative that you select a good focus with which to approach your subject. In the case of the first assignment, you should write 200-250 words on All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk’s film from 1955. As you write about the film, I want you to chose a particular approach to the film, in order to avoid too general of a discussion. Also, I would like you to ground your discussion in one of the texts you have read for the class, quoting at least one of them. There is no need for a full citation, just refer to the author(s) and the page number in parenthesis after the quote.

Potential focuses:

– narrative

– style

– social critique

– feminist critique (Cary’s position in the film)

– different characters (the children, Ron, the men in Cary’s life, the film’s representation of society, Ron’s friends vs. Cary’s friends)

– emotions
– the use of music (or any specific characteristic of the melodrama)