Pinko's 201st Copy

Pinko was a robust, rosy skinned baby weighing in at 46.2 lbs on the morn of his hairy, slippery entrance into this world over two years ago. The date was April 30th, 2005.

"Oh Jeanne, what a strange path I took to meet you!" - Michel, Pickpocket

Here's links to my 3 final papers in pdf format (please ignore the cheesy names). Also, all of them are pretty well related, and all talk about Camera Lucida.

Robert Bresson (Silverman) final: "The Limits of Exchange in the Work of Robert Bresson"
(draws on Baudrillard's distinction between semiotic and symbolic exchange, suicide in Bresson's films, Barthes' definiton of the punctum in Camera Lucida, Deleuze's conception of the any-space-whatever in the cinema, and Bresson's use of "limit cases" - also, for some reason I thought that Jeanne's name in Pickpocket was "Marie" while I was writing this, so I apologize for that horrible blunder)

Photographic Theory (Doane) final: "Exposed or Framed? The Criminal Body in Focus - Sekula's Account of the Photographic Archive"
(Sekula, Barthes and Bentham to talk about the modern subject and his relation to photography)

Visuality (Silverman) final: "A Real Image: The Disorder of Modernity - Tracing the Photograph through Barthes and Benjamin"
(talking about indexicality and iconicity in the photograph, and how those ideas relate, on the one hand, to Barthes' conception of "absolute subjectivity" in relation to photography, and on the other hand, to Benjamin's thoughts on commodification and universalization)