Robert Stam's "Mobilizing Fictions"
"...a mass of spoiled children sitting before their TV sets, children who require
a periodic state of the art slaughter to cure their sociopathological meloncholy..." (108)
-"Since television as an institution fosters a phantasmatic relationship between the viewer
and the news celebrity, people who scarcely know their neighbors are convinced that they
know and love the newscasters." (109)
-Their minimal performance style orchestrates barely perceptible smiles
and the delicate lowering or raising of the eyebrows in conjunction with slight variations
in tone and stress, constructs a studied expressionlessness usually triggering an effect
of neutrality, a calculated ambiguity of expression open to the most diverse projections." (109)
-Going through a brief recollection of my position as a child watching this show,
the metaphor of the TV screen as a mirror & touching on identity; how Punky served as a role model/friend/
her fulfilling certain unimagined fantasies as a kid, while at the same time narrating a corner of my childhood
which I actively participated in through viewership & to some extent desire. She provided a space/time of 'being',
without being, but watching her become or age alongside myself, not in the sense of comparison, but
as a sign of support and admiration.
-The guitar music in the background in conjunct to the legband sticking out of the door.
-The sentimentality of the narrative working with or against the sentimentality of the sound effect
when Punky walks out of the room.
-Then working into some of Klee's paintings (geometric shapes,colors) which reminded me of Punky, the sense of time from 1926 vs. 1984 vs. the present.
video: A voice-over of a Punky Brewster interview
-slowness, duration, speed
-flipping over the usual expectations of culture/ethnic and calling attention to comparing it to oil painting.
-voice sounded detached in beginning and then personal voice went into it second half.
-written narrative vs. voice sounding--> tonal differences which can also be subtle.
-painting into the flow of dream, thought, sleep, & how it leads into that blackout.
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