Foster, Ch 15-17

Sex is a big part of movies and life.
What did it used to be like?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelsieBitner/2009/03/sex_sex_sex.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AjaHannah/2009/04/fly_away_dirty_minds.html

"...irony trumps everything."

-Foster, page 129

Foster reminds us, the audience, that even small details can make a huge difference.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/04/the_wrath_of_irony.html

"...describing two human beings engaging in the most intimate of shared acts is very nearly the least rewarding enterprise a writer can take."
--Foster, page 143
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MatthewHenderson/2009/04/sex_isnt_sexy.html

If readers are not mature enough to pick up on the "waves breaking on a beach" (Foster 137) or "the train entering a tunnel" (Foster 138) as representing sex, it really should not be explained to them.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlyssaSanow/2009/04/over_their_heads.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/04/sex-is-not-writ.html
"The truth is that most of the time when writers deal with sex, they avoid writing about the act itself." (Foster 144)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CarlosPeredo/2009/04/the_ambiguity_of_flight.html

Flight isn't always about flying!!!

"It's really pretty straightforward: flight is freedom."
page 128

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/04/wings.html

"In general, flying is freedom, we might say, freedom from not only from specific circumstances but from those more general burdens that tie us down." (Foster 127).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AliciaCampbell/2009/04/dualism.html

Of course i am talking about fosters chapter 16...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NikitaMcClellan/2009/04/art_and_fruedian_sexual_ideals.html

“In general, flying is freedom, we might say, freedom not only from specific circumstances but from those more general burdens that tie us down”. (Foster p. 127)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RosalindBlair/2009/04/fly_away_home.html

Foster on flight

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndrewAdams/2009/04/inverse.html

Is sex a suggesting something more in The Time Traveler's Wife? What do you think?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/04/sex_equals.html

"Besides, he admits in a famous essay on the crafting of the novel that he really has no knowledge of nineteenth-century lovemaking, and in depicting sex between a Victorian man and woman what he's really writing is 'science fiction'" (Foster 145-146).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianneBanda/2009/04/different_depending_on_the_era.html

WHOOPS. I forgot to post the link....
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JoshuaWilks/2009/04/sexy_symbols.html

"Tall buildings? Male sexuality. Rolling landscapes? Female sexuality. Stairs? Sexual intercourse. Falling down stairs? Oh my." (135-136)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MarieVanMaanen/2009/04/hidden_sex.html

"Drives you crazy, doesn't it? When they're writing about other things, they really mean sex, and when they write about sex, they really mean something else. If they write about sex, and mean strictly sex, we have a word for that. Pornography."

The Media Has Made Sex the Norm

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RebeccaMarrie/2009/04/the_media_has_made_sex_the_nor.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaBitar/2009/04/flight_is_freedom.html