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To prepare for some end-of-quarter, pre-exam summation and review, let's think about potential exam questions. You will receive the list of possible exam questions during lecture on Monday. But before that — by midnight Sunday! — each student must submit a question they think could be an exam question. What do you think Patrick will ask for a final exam? Better: How could the material we've read best be compared, contrasted, and discussed?
Submit your potential question in the comments section of this post. Do not duplicate questions; read previously submitted ones to make sure yours is not similar. In class, our discussion leaders will offer some examples and ways to get at some of your answers, and we'll firm up the overall trajectory of the course.
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To prepare for some end-of-quarter, pre-exam summation and review, let's think about potential exam questions. You will receive the list of possible exam questions during lecture on Monday. But before that — by midnight Sunday! — each student must submit a question they think could be an exam question. What do you think Patrick will ask for a final exam? Better: How could the material we've read best be compared, contrasted, and discussed?
Submit your potential question in the comments section of this post. Do not duplicate questions; read previously submitted ones to make sure yours is not similar. In class, our discussion leaders will offer some examples and ways to get at some of your answers, and we'll firm up the overall trajectory of the course. The New York Times just published a couple of interesting pieces related to our discussions about gender and identity.
Just saw this nifty 2-minute video posted to Aeon (a great online mag), summing up Goffman's thinking about the performative self!  Many of you have mentioned that you watched last night's Super Bowl and its halftime music performances. Some of you likely also have encountered today's deliberations in news media and online about Beyoncé's appearance during that halftime show. Pundits on the notoriously conservative Fox News channel (and other sources) called her appearance "outrageous" based on her presentation of political ideas — namely the Black Lives Matter movement — in both her song and her dancer's costumes.
This is well-timed for our discussion of racial coding and othering in the Hall, Mulvey, and hooks readings. Per my discussion in the Monday section today about the move that Stuart Hall and subsequent scholars made to justify the study of popular culture: here's a link to the post on my personal blog about the highbrow vs. lowbrow binary — and the lasting effect it has on America's view of itself and its culture.
Participation! Read the Van Wyck Brooks essay linked there. What do you think about his perspective on American culture? Do we still divide the culture between this binary? For what purpose — what work is that doing, and for whom? Directive: For this assignment, groups will design and write a mystery. Mysteries may take any form, but should include both an extended narrative (story) and visual components (film, video, photography, graphic images, etc.). Using theories of signification and the social unconscious from class readings, groups will embed within their mysteries hidden “clues” along the way, presented in both narrative and visual modes. This is intended as a creative project, so groups should feel free to experiment with the assignment.
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