[Xmca-l] Re: (no subject)

[Bella Kotik-Friedgut]

Thank you very much, David!
Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:41 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Bella:
>
> There is the discussion of Charlie Chaplin in the "Crisis at Seven". What
> Vygotsky says is that Chaplin's art depends on the presentation of a very
> naive, direct, and unmediated relationship between inner self and outer
> persona--by implication the intellectualized "wedge' that the child inserts
> between these constitutes a neoformation.
>
> My current research is based on figuring out what the grammatical
> expressions of this "wedge" are in the Korean language, and sure enough we
> are using a lot of data about cinema to do it (the recent CGI version of
> the Lion King and the question "Do animals really talk?").
>
> Vygotsky only makes a passing reference to Chaplin and he doesn't discuss
> (for example) the extent to which Chaplin's naive and direct personal
> depends on not speaking. And of course he didn't know about Chaplin's later
> work in talkies, some of which actually hinges on dissemblance and
> deception ("Monseiur Verdoux"). But when I watch the final speech at the
> end of the Great Dictator, I notice that when Chaplin has something to say
> about war and fascism, he just says it. There is something of the naive,
> direct, and unmediated relationship between self and persona even there.
>
> David Kellogg
>
> New co-translation, with Nikolai Veresov:
>
> ‘L. S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works: Volume 1. Foundations of Pedology’.
>
> Free downloadable PDF with introductory essay, concluding essay.
> Free summarizing outlines.
>
> Book product page: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811505270
>
> The eBook is available here:  https://link.springer.com/
> book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-0528-7
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:45 PM Bella Kotik-Friedgut <
> bella.kotik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues
>> It is well known what was LSV love and writings about theater. Also Ht
>> and Luria where very friendly with S. Eisenstein, My question is^ did
>> Vygotsky write anything about cinema?
>> Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
>>
>
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