Tuesday 4 March 2008

Week 9 - Cobb, Ch. 9 (Life Everlasting)

Death is a fascination of the culture as evidence by movies and Disney myths. Apocolyptic stories pit good vs. evil for the culture. Film and art attempts to recapture Eden/utopia. Blue and green landscape imprinted on our consciousness by God? Popular culture full of "ghost stories" that attempt to bring meaning to death - but ghosts more prevalent in other cultures. Ghosts represent a rootedness to the past that Americans lack?

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