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Follow the Bouncing Ball, Week3: Battle Royale

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Written by Kevin Johns   
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 19:00

Follow along with Prof. Lipsett and his students as they study Teen Cinema.

So we're now in Week 3 of the course, which means the damn thing is already almost half over (crazy reduced summer schedules!). So far the students have been slowly easing themselves into the material, so I'm hopeful the ultraviolence of Battle Royale will kick-start a deeper level of analysis.

The past few classes have becoming increasingly focused on the difficulties of maturing, the conflicting relationships between teens, their parents, their peer groups, and the cliques that dominate high school. With tonight's film, we take these ideas to extreme ends as adults deal with delinquent students by putting them on an island and forcing them to kill each other (If you haven't seen the film, it's like the Running Man meets Lord of the Flies and has never been distributed in North America - look for it at an independent video store). The group of girls who will present on the film (by placing it in context in terms of production, distribution, exhibition and reception) have done a bang up job, so be sure to check out their blogs here and here, and leave your thoughts!

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