1. Noah and the Flood
Sinnerman (where you gonna run to) - Nina Simone

2. Cultural Foundations: The Right to Power
On the proper limits and relations of power:
(the right of some to have power over others)
On legitimate power and the right to violence:
(what kinds of power are right, what are not)
On the transfer of power:
(from God to men; from Noah to his “rightful” heir)

3. Cultural foundations: (Re)telling stories about origins
Why is this story being told, in this way?
What is it trying to explain, or bring about?
What differences are introduced in retelling a story, and how are they important?
What techniques are used (e.g. what ‘style’), and how do they affect the story’s meaning?

4. A modern “Noah’s Ark”

7. Noah’s Ark Deluxe Hotel and Casino

10. A success story: surviving and thriving

11. (Tell him what he’s won…)

16. NOAH (the story is more than you imagined...)

17. Noah and the Flood A figure for success:
who wins, what they win, and why
An end and a beginning:
“corruption,” and wiping the slate clean
Making the covenant: new powers, new problems
What just happened?? the problem of the ending

18. Overview The “laconic” style and its effects
Origin stories: reflection or cause?
Conceptual knots in Genesis
a. between seeing and sin
b. between power and difference
The ends of reading: reproduction or change?

19. Bette Davis (“All About Eve”)

20. Betty Davis

21. They Say I'm Different...