Re: Who wrote Holden Caulfield
Paul VanDenBerghe (VanDenBergheP@ldschurch.org)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:44:18 -0700
In one of my undergraduate classes at the University of Utah we had an =
assignment to respond to a literary work in some form other than writing =
an essay. It was a wonderful assignment and a great learning experience. =
We had responses in the form of music, film, someone even created a board =
game in response to _The Tempest_.
My initial idea was to respond to the play _The Crucible_ with a crude, =
homemade Super 8 movie. The real reason I wanted to do this was so I could =
use Kate Bush's song "Waking the Witch" to accompany the film. But I =
couldn't figure out a way to make the movie in time for the due date.
I ended up by making a film in response to the Ogden Nash poem "I think =
that I shall never see / A billboard lovely as a tree," etc. It was a =
jumpy, jerky film with mostly shots of billboards accompanied by Jimmy =
Hendrix's "Cross Town Traffic."
It was a fun exercise in responding to a work of literature. It makes me =
stop to consider how I might respond to one of Salinger's stories. =
(*Salinger tie-in*)
(I really sent this post because I love Kate Bush. But it also emphasizes =
the power that music has to our emotions and how we react to other =
influences.)
Paul VanDenBerghe
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> P.S. - that isn't an original idea. Our English teacher got us interested=
> in Wuthering Heights by doing the same thing with the Kate Bush song
> Wuthering Heights. We all came to the conclusion that it's a tad hard to
> fit a full length Victorian novel into a three minute pop song (: )
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> Camille
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