trailer for the book

 I was in KC yesterday for my annual getaway in between Christmas and New Year's Eve

and I was hit with the idea to collage elements from the Nicole Kidman AMC 

with my Unbreakable riffting and IN A WORLD writing 

Decmber 19 work as a sendoff into breaktime

 Today was a good sendoff into break

 

I worked a little on EEAAO, which might be the merger into cinema therapy

Another Elegy for another mother  a filmography

Men Who Pay Tribute To Their Mothers

My Life with two moms at the Movies 

And I separated back My Fifty Years at the Movies

Labyrinth Work 

 

 

A-ha moment

 It looks like I won't need to think of big issues as having their own long sections, except that grief one, it looks like more of it will be smaller movie things with the collage work of quotes, movies, and memoir

Like the mom tribute, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes with mom Sondra

for my index cards

work on

Spielberg and Mendes tributes to mothers

bad movies are good medicine: Eureka, I should take all of these longer quotes and put them in a note section, then just highlight the movies. Like I can summarize what people are saying but then have the academic stuff in the notes

Eeaao, take research, place into single sentences with a

For [this person], the film is [a way to heal from ] : quote.

another elegy for another mother 

troubles with masculinity 

 

 

 

Coming together

 I see my book made up of:

 snall discussons about films

larger concepts, like the seasons, myth, fairy tales, etc

approaches to viewing film