The confessional -- stalking & self-created madness -- persona production

HOAX stalking site:
fortheloveofjulie.com

Why did the police start investigating???
Are you interested in building your own website?  Perhaps documenting something you supposedly encountered?

Readings:
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Girl, Interrupted -- the book
Girl Interrupted -- the movie
The book -- overview
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Disassociative Identity Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Dementia
Emotional Disturbances
Pathfinder (Time-Warner)
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

Final project idea:  build your own website -- let it be absolutely creative -- perhaps a la The Blair Witch Project…free websites

Recommended Additional Viewing:
American Psycho
Silence of the Lambs
Copycat
Rear Window
Psycho
Vertigo
Marnie

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A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Thoughts for your Journal:

• What catapults a normal person into the realm of obsession?
  
• What are the techniques used in narrative to represent obsession (repetition? Distorted thinking?  Interior monologues? )
  
• What are techniques used in film-making to cause the audience to think that one of the characters is disturbed?
  
• What does stalking reveal about gender roles in our culture?  Are things changing?  Are women usually stalked?  What happens when a woman stalks a man?
  
• Diary of a stalker… you may want to consider writing one for your final project!  (fictional, please!)
  

A young woman thinks her uncle may be a serial killer.

Complex story about a San Francisco detective and his psychological troubles with fear of heights and with a woman.