Outline for a Visual Rhetoric Course that sounds like it'd be pretty great to take. Although I bet the enjoyment of the class would largely derive from how annoying the other students in the class were considering some of the topics for discussion -
Now that they're relatively fluent in the language of film, we try to prove something a little more complex; namely, that Superman Returns is very much about 9/11. First, I take them back to September morning; then we analyze the action sequence that's about planes slamming into NYC landmarks, lest they think I'm reading too much into the anxieties the film taps into.
I could just see the film class Matrix lover take that as an opening to divulge all his conspiratorial readings of Disney movies and make me go crazy. It just takes one student to go off on a tangent about how Toy Story is about the evils of capitalism or how Wall-E is nerd wish fulfillment robot rape that I would begin to dread going to class.
The social retard doesn't know how to deal with a woman he likes, so he overdoes it - candy, flowers, gifts and, most damning of all, endless declarations of love. In his mind this is romantic, but in real life it's just creepy and sometimes scary. Wall*E's big love montage - where Wall*E takes the shut down EVE all over the place and wines and dines her unconscious form - is the hyper-realization of that. But the movie takes it even farther and has Wall*E essentially date rape the sleeping bot - he forces open the plate on her body where her hand resides and pulls out the appendage so he can hold it. In the world of Wall*E hand holding seems to be like Doing It, or some variation thereof, and the little garbage bot forcing himself on a knocked out female is incredibly creepy.
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