Director
Henry Ferrini
Leading Actors/Actresses
Charles Olson
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Diane Di
Genre
Poetry
Language
English
Awards
Winner of the Documentary Award, 2007 (Berkeley Film Festival)
Date of Release
April 2007
Producer
Henry Ferrini
Setting and Context
Set in ancient Greek City State and Gloucester
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Cheerful and informative
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is Charles Olson
Major Conflict
In the ‘Librarian,’ there is a conflict between the narrator and the dwellers of Gloucester because they beat an innocent man brutally to death. The narrator wants to leave the city as soon as possible.
Climax
The climax comes in ‘Maximus, to himself’ when Maximus discovers that he can excel in any intellectual pursuit he undertakes.
Foreshadowing
The narrator’s grief over his mother is foreshadowed by his attempt to mend the car that has been in the garage for a long time.
Understatement
The narrator in ‘As the Dead Prey Upon Us' underestimates the power of memory. When he thinks he has gotten over his late mother, her memories bounce back stronger, and he sees her image in her usual sitting place in the sitting room.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
N/A
Allusions
N/A
Paradox
The main paradox is that the narrator in 'As the Dead Prey Upon Us' wants to move forward, but at the same time, he refuses to let go of his late mother's memory.
Parallelism
In ‘Maximus, to Himself,’ there is a parallelism between the ambitions of the narrator and his intellectual success in all his pursuits.
