1.Brief Introduction of Author
Toni Morrison
African-American female writer
Her novels particularly focused
on racial & gender issues of black
women
Wrote The Bluest Eye based on her
‘real life experience’
Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
A poor, black girl eager to have white skin and blue eyes.
She becomes insane at the end of the novel
Claudia Ma
middle-class
A rapidly growing middle class has emerged. According to the National Bureau of Statistic of PRC (NBS), middle class refers to those with annual household income of 60,000 yuan (USD 7,230) to 500,000 yuan (USD 60,240). This group of people has stable income, can afford private-owned houses and cars, and have extra money to spend on beauty goods, holiday and education. They have hig
In the future…
Rising age at first marriage for both women and men
Declining number of children per household
Increasing life span
Women now constitutes a majority of enrollment at all levels of postsecondary education
Prevalence of egalitarian gender-role attitude
Couple’s capacity to maintain a middle-classstandard of living, dependent largely on wife’s earning
Women in
middle-class women
went to porn theaters.
It really broke down,
uh, traditional codes
of--of decorum.
(Hugh Hefner)
Linda Lovelace,
and conversations,
and jokes about Deep Throat,
appeared
on network television.
lf the film
became mainstream,
conversation about it
became truly mainstream.
lts kind of
a strange country, isnt it?
Judges can see Deep Throat,
but they cant listen
to those tapes.
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OPENING SEQUENCE
Blue Moon against a black sky.
Blue house silhouette against a black sky.
The house recede into the background, getting smaller and smaller.
EXT: LARGE HOME: NIGHT
Upper middle-class home with Christmas decorations. Very noisy. Sounds of
many people talking at once. "Wheres my suitcase?"
INT: LARGE HOME: NIGHT
A policeman, with his back to the camera, stands in the hallway. He tr