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IMAGERY AND CULTURE THIS IS THE WEEK BY WEEK SCHEDULE [ BACK to Imagery & Culture Home Page ] |
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WEEK 1: INTRO TO CULTURAL STUDIES EXPLORING IDEOLOGY |
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TUESDAY Jan 22 |
THURSDAY Jan 22 |
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TODAY: INTRO TO
CLASS |
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REQUIRED Familarize yourself with this Viewing Guide
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WEEK 2 CULTURAL STUDIES (cont'd) EXPLORING IDEOLOGY |
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TUESDAY Jan 27 |
THURSDAY Jan 29 |
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TODAY: bell
hooks: Doing Cultural Criticism Bring viewing guide to class |
TODAY: Examining Capitalism |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS: REQUIRED: Karl Marx,
"The Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas" Frank
Elwell, "The Sociology of Karl Marx" Antonio Gramsci: Selections from Prison
Notebooks |
FOR NEXT CLASS: REQUIRED: 2. ALTHUSSER READING GUIDES ? ? |
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IDEOLOGY & SIGNIFYING PRACTICES |
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TUESDAY 2/3 |
THURSDAY 2/5 |
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TODAY: Examining
Capitalism (2) ALTHUSSER:
Ideological State Apparatus, Interpellation |
TODAY: Examining
Capitalism (3) The Frankfurt
School |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS: REQUIRED: 2.The
Culture Industry, Horkheimer and Adorno. Availableon-line HERE --- READ approximately Pages 1-7, end when you get to the following
words”…this mental state is not nuanced or extended in any way.” 3. Douglas Kellner, "The Frankfurt
School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation" |
TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS VIDEOS TO
REFERENCE: New Tide With Extra
Cleaning Power Welcome to the Suburbs
(1950s Redbook Series) (note the value system this film advocates) Pete Seeger
(renowned folk singer) singing Little
Boxes Ca. 1963 --- protest to suburbia, but he was still a regular on TV
networks and had major record label distribution. Hit TV show
“Weeds” uses Little
Boxes as its theme song – 2005. To promote
their program, they held a contest where viewers could submit their version
of the theme song see
example. Search YouTube for hundreds of versions. Illusion of
participatory culture where individualism can be regained… bu, in the end,
they want us all to watch Weeds. Coca Cola: The Whole World
Smiling With Me Naomi Klein “No Logo”
Trailer also,
from earlier in the semester: bell hooks PART 1 available here bell hooks parts 2-8
available here A GIRL
LIKE ME (teens reflecting on Imagery of African-Americans |
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TUESDAY 2/10 |
THURSDAY 2/12 |
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TODAY: Signifying
Otherness, Race (1) |
TODAY – Signifying
Otherness, Race (2) |
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FOR NEXT CLASS: |
FOR NEXT
CLASS: EXAM
#1 : DUE Thursday Feb 19th Note : To review videos screened in
class --- see above (2/5) Available
here in 4 parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Interpretive Strategies |
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TUESDAY 2/17 |
THURSDAY 2/19 |
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TODAY: Signifying
Otherness, Race (3) |
TODAY: Signifying
Otherness, Race in film & television ***DUE: EXAM
#1*** In class at 10 am |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS: EXAM
#1 : DUE Thursday Feb 19th FINISH
READING : Stuart
Hall: Ch 4: “The Spectacle of the Other” from Representation: Cultural
Representations & Signifying Practices Available
here in 4 parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS View: Classified X VIEW
ALL 6 PARTS (in order) on YouTube: click here
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SELF and OTHER |
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TUESDAY 2/24 |
THURSDAY 2/26
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Today: MAKE SURE YOU
HAVE READ ALL OF STUART HALL'S CHAPTERMA MAKE SURE
YOU'VE SEEN ALL OF Classified X JUST ADDED: GREAT ARTICLE ON RACE, IMAGERY &
STEREOTYPES in NYTIMES |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS:
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TO READ FOR NEXT CLASS:
Read Mark Crispin
Miller’sMassa Come
Home" |
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WEEK 7 "Othering the world" |
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TUESDAY 3/3 |
THURSDAY 3/5
Disney’s Others |
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Discuss Massa Come Home View Jamaica Commercials View Life & Debt |
Today : The World
as "Other" STUDENTS SUBMIT
PROPOSALS FOR ESSAYS: In writing. Be specific, choose a
text that’s manageable |
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IMAGERY AND IMPERIALISM |
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TUESDAY 3/10 Images of the War
FOR NEXT CLASS: READ What Have We Done? by Susan Sontag
style="color: Black;" ”Animating Youth: the Disnification of Children's
Culture” by Henry Giroux |
THURSDAY 3/12 DIscuss Giroux article, Sontag Article SEE ONLINE BONUS
LECTURE for key concepts, clips, and questions |
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TUESDAY 3/24 View Culture
Jamming Film |
THURSDAY 3/26 CULTURE JAMMING
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS: Watch No Logo Clip
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Practices of Resistance |
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TUESDAY 3/31 |
THURSDAY 4/2 |
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TODAY: DISCUSS CULTURE
JAMMING PROJECTS Form Groups
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SUBMIT FIRST DRAFT OF ESSAYS IN GROUPS: PLAN
CULTURE JAMS |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS:
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TUESDAY 4/7 |
THURSDAY 4/9 |
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TODAY: SUBMIT FIRST DRAFT OF ESSAYS
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TODAY: IN GROUPS: Plan Culture Jamming Project |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
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FOR NEXT CLASS: READ: MARLON
RIGGS, "Tongues Re-Tied" |
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Practices of Resistance: Alternative Media 2 |
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TUESDAY 4/14 |
THURSDAY 4/16 |
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TODAY: Alternative Video
Practices 1: Public Television & The Culture Wars |
TODAY: Alternative Video
Practices 2 |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS: Gregg Bordowitz, "Operative Assumptions" Visit http://www.listenup.org |
Henry Jenkins: “Photoshop for Democracy” View his Conference talk here |
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TUESDAY 4/21 IN Class: PRESENT CULTURE JAMS Submit Written
Documentation of Culture Jam
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THURSDAY 4/23 Alternative Video
Practices 3 : Participatory Culture (On-line) |
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TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS: Henry Jenkins: “Photoshop for Democracy” View his Conference talk here |
TO READ FOR NEXT
CLASS: Augusto Boal Games for Actors
& Non Actors (from Rdg. Packet) |
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TUESDAY 4/28 |
THURSDAY 4.30
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TODAY: Exam #3: Take
Home Meet in Regular Classroom READ Augusto Boal |
*** WORTH 10 POINTS *** MEET IN BRADLEY
HALL ::: 2nd Floor Rehearsal space (to the right of the main office) |
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WEEK 16 FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAYS DUE TUESDAY MAY 12 |