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A blog for Hunter College Women and the Media class
Due 5/1
Feminist Art Practice and the Mass Media - Pen Dalton
Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier - Gillian Youngs
A blog for Hunter College Women and the Media class
FINALS DUE 5/15 + 5/24
You must post your project with a short synopsis to the blog. All projects must be linked to the blog or embedded. This includes papers - you must link to a pdf online (ex: use Scribd.) You must also hand in to me a print out of your papers, print projects or works cited for production projects. Videos/websites can be handed in on DVD, but must also be online (speak with me if this is an issue.)
We will clap.
Due 5/8
OF COURSE WE WILL BE MEETING FOR CLASS. Below are assignments due:
WORK ON YOUR FINALS! Catch up on sleep, take a walk, teach someone something you learned in this class, apply for a dream job/internship.
Also not mandatory post: short one -anything you find interesting inspired by last week's class.
You must post your project with a short synopsis to the blog. All projects must be linked to the blog or embedded. This includes papers - you must link to a pdf online (ex: use Scribd.) You must also hand in to me a print out of your papers, print projects or works cited for production projects. Videos/websites can be handed in on DVD, but must also be online (speak with me if this is an issue.)
We will clap.
Due 5/8
OF COURSE WE WILL BE MEETING FOR CLASS. Below are assignments due:
WORK ON YOUR FINALS! Catch up on sleep, take a walk, teach someone something you learned in this class, apply for a dream job/internship.
Also not mandatory post: short one -anything you find interesting inspired by last week's class.
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Due 5/1
Final Project (Draft) Bibliography/Sources list due
READINGS:
On Blackboard
A Cyberroom of One's Own - Sarah SteinFeminist Art Practice and the Mass Media - Pen Dalton
Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier - Gillian Youngs
Online
Veiled Threat by Arwa Aburawa Bitch Magazine
http://bitchmagazine.org/article/veiled-threat
The Feminist Evolution ArtNews December 2009
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2800¤t=True
Where the Great Women Artists are Now
Interview with Linda Nochlin Art News February 2007
http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2216
Interview with Cat Mazza
We-Make-Money-Not-Art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/01/how-and-when-did-you.php
Due 4/24
Post 5 Due
Choose and research a female film director/screenwriter and a single work or several works. Describe their approach to film making and explain their role as auteur. Using references to the readings and references to your own research (be sure to cite) explain the work, especially as it relates to auteur theory. How does the filmmaker explain their work and their process? How are the works and filmmakers received? How are they critiqued? Every post must have a short bibliography/works sited. You must include at least 2 additional sources with your post. If possible include links to the readings or sources, if not list them properly in your works cited.
Veiled Threat by Arwa Aburawa Bitch Magazine
http://bitchmagazine.org/article/veiled-threat
The Feminist Evolution ArtNews December 2009
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2800¤t=True
Where the Great Women Artists are Now
Interview with Linda Nochlin Art News February 2007
http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2216
Interview with Cat Mazza
We-Make-Money-Not-Art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/01/how-and-when-did-you.php
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Due 4/24
Post 5 Due
Choose and research a female film director/screenwriter and a single work or several works. Describe their approach to film making and explain their role as auteur. Using references to the readings and references to your own research (be sure to cite) explain the work, especially as it relates to auteur theory. How does the filmmaker explain their work and their process? How are the works and filmmakers received? How are they critiqued? Every post must have a short bibliography/works sited. You must include at least 2 additional sources with your post. If possible include links to the readings or sources, if not list them properly in your works cited.
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Due 4/17
Readings on Blackboard:
Introduction "Making Movie Magic" from Reel to Real by bell hooks
"Author/Autor: Feminist Literary Theory and Feminist Film" by Maggie Humm
"Debra Zimmerman and Women Make Movies" by Judith Redding and Victoria A. Brownworth
Please look at the Women Make Movies website http://www.wmm.com/
Introduction "Making Movie Magic" from Reel to Real by bell hooks
"Author/Autor: Feminist Literary Theory and Feminist Film" by Maggie Humm
"Debra Zimmerman and Women Make Movies" by Judith Redding and Victoria A. Brownworth
Please look at the Women Make Movies website http://www.wmm.com/
2 bookmarks on delicious
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Due 4/10
Post 4: Using references to the readings due for class, convey an understanding of women (and minorities) in the news media industry. Research and discuss an alternative news organization or independent news source that is outside this norm, possibly by or for women specifically. The example can be local, national or international. Look to independent media in developing nations as well for interesting and inspiring examples. You can also choose to concentrate on a specific person. Be sure to explain the publication or online source in depth, explain it's origins and why it is successful or necessary as an alternative media source. What is the role of gender in this story?
***-This post will be graded on your writing and editing and especially on your research and analysis. Please be thorough and edit!
READINGS:
Due 4/10
Post 4: Using references to the readings due for class, convey an understanding of women (and minorities) in the news media industry. Research and discuss an alternative news organization or independent news source that is outside this norm, possibly by or for women specifically. The example can be local, national or international. Look to independent media in developing nations as well for interesting and inspiring examples. You can also choose to concentrate on a specific person. Be sure to explain the publication or online source in depth, explain it's origins and why it is successful or necessary as an alternative media source. What is the role of gender in this story?
***-This post will be graded on your writing and editing and especially on your research and analysis. Please be thorough and edit!
READINGS:
FreePress Media Ownership Policy
http://freepress.net/policy/ownership
Media Ownership: Impact on Minority Ownership and Localism
http://womensmediacenter.com/blog/2007/02/media-ownership-impact-on-minority-ownership-and-localism/
Media Ownership Fact Sheet - NOW
http://www.now.org/issues/media/women_in_media_facts.html"
http://freepress.net/policy/ownership
Media Ownership: Impact on Minority Ownership and Localism
http://womensmediacenter.com/blog/2007/02/media-ownership-impact-on-minority-ownership-and-localism/
Media Ownership Fact Sheet - NOW
http://www.now.org/issues/media/women_in_media_facts.html"
Diversity in Media Ownership & Employment
http://www.civilrights.org/media/ownership/
WATCH:
Reel Girls Media Consolidation
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=reelgrrls#play/uploads/27/VZ01mj0IdTQ
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DUE 3/27
http://www.civilrights.org/media/ownership/
WATCH:
Reel Girls Media Consolidation
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=reelgrrls#play/uploads/27/VZ01mj0IdTQ
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MidTerm Meetings this week Room HN515
Gender Subversion Kit (download the pdf at this link)
http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/posters/gender_subversion_front.pdf
Highlighting Girls in Youth Media
As practitioners in youth media, we have the opportunity to support the long-term development of girls.
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/08/the_power_and_impact_of_gender.html
The Power and Impact of Gender-Specific Media Literacy
It is up to the field as a whole to help students critique media, avoid stereotypes, and act out new identities.
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/08/highlighting_girls_in_youth_me.html
Explorers of Exchange: Girls Traverse the Digital Divide
Girls from the Lower East Side use digital photography to define global exchange with girls in Chiapas, Mexico.
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2007/10/explorers_of_exchange_girls_tr.html
Youth media programs have what it takes to support queer youth and their inventive approaches to making media and eradicating homophobia one large step at a time.
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2008/06/youth_media_is_coming_out.html
Media Savvy Arab Girls Respond to the Mainstream
How alternative youth media can and must respond to mainstream news.
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2007/11/media_savvy_arab_girls_respond.html
2 bookmarks on delicious
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DUE 3/20 **CHANGE IN SCHEDULE! (see revised syllabus)
1 page Project Proposal for final projects printed and handed in. Explain/describe the content of your project and the medium you will use to create it. Use visuals if necessary: sketches, still images etc. Also include possible resources (a full bibliography will be required later.)
The Rise of the Female Anchor
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/weekinreview/06stanley.html
Rachael Papers
http://issuu.com/bitchmagazine/docs/the_rachel_papers/3?mode=embed&documentId=090225195412-a61ca4d3a7b34c879210801d39c49c40&layout=white
2 bookmarks on delicious
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DUE 3/13
Readings
1.Susan Bordo -- "Hunger as Ideology" from Unbearable Weight
2.Maggie Wykes/Barrie Gunter --"Conclusion" from The Media and Body Image
3.Naomi Wolf -- "Culture" from The Beauty Myth
4.online: Media's Effect On Girls: Body Image And Gender Identity http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mediaeffect.shtml
from National Institute of Media and the Family
1 page Project Proposal for final projects printed and handed in. Explain/describe the content of your project and the medium you will use to create it. Use visuals if necessary: sketches, still images etc. Also include possible resources (a full bibliography will be required later.)
The Rise of the Female Anchor
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/weekinreview/06stanley.html
Rachael Papers
http://issuu.com/bitchmagazine/docs/the_rachel_papers/3?mode=embed&documentId=090225195412-a61ca4d3a7b34c879210801d39c49c40&layout=white
Broadcast News: When Women Become Two out of Three
http://womensmediacenter.com/blog/2009/09/942/
Article on Blackboard:
Women in Broadcasting - Barbara Murray Eddings
http://womensmediacenter.com/blog/2009/09/942/
Article on Blackboard:
Women in Broadcasting - Barbara Murray Eddings
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DUE 3/13
Post 3
Using all of your readings, class discussions and critiques of advertising images and the sexism, racism and power hierarchies found in so many of these, find or construct an alternative to these mainstream images and explain why it is different. Carefully draw out advertising strategies and goals and provide alternative paths for the industry or alternative anti-advertising messages.
Using all of your readings, class discussions and critiques of advertising images and the sexism, racism and power hierarchies found in so many of these, find or construct an alternative to these mainstream images and explain why it is different. Carefully draw out advertising strategies and goals and provide alternative paths for the industry or alternative anti-advertising messages.
1.Susan Bordo -- "Hunger as Ideology" from Unbearable Weight
2.Maggie Wykes/Barrie Gunter --"Conclusion" from The Media and Body Image
3.Naomi Wolf -- "Culture" from The Beauty Myth
4.online: Media's Effect On Girls: Body Image And Gender Identity http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mediaeffect.shtml
from National Institute of Media and the Family
2 bookmarks on delicious
Final project topics
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Due 3/6
(Post 3 - postponed - only due 3/13. See below for details)
Advertising, Magazines and Women
4 short essays from Gender Race and Class in Media
-Sex Lies and Advertising - Steinem Ms. Magazine
-Beauty and the Beast of Advertising
-Reading Images Critically - Douglas Kellner
-Commodity Lesbianism - Danae Clark
Provocateur -Anthony Cortese - Constructed Bodies, Deconstructing Ads Sexism in Advertising
2 bookmarks on delicious (focus on advertising images specifically and possible connections to violence against women and girls - as in Kilbourne's assessment)
Advertising, Magazines and Women
4 short essays from Gender Race and Class in Media
-Sex Lies and Advertising - Steinem Ms. Magazine
-Beauty and the Beast of Advertising
-Reading Images Critically - Douglas Kellner
-Commodity Lesbianism - Danae Clark
Provocateur -Anthony Cortese - Constructed Bodies, Deconstructing Ads Sexism in Advertising
2 bookmarks on delicious (focus on advertising images specifically and possible connections to violence against women and girls - as in Kilbourne's assessment)
Post 3 - Due 3/13
Using all of your readings, class discussions and critiques of advertising images and the sexism, racism and power hierarchies found in so many of these, find or construct an alternative to these mainstream images and explain why it is different. Carefully draw out advertising strategies and goals and provide alternative paths for the industry or alternative anti-advertising messages.
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DUE 2/27
CLASSES ON TOMORROW 2/27!!!
As of tonight 2/26 at 8pm all classes are on for 2/27. Please check the Hunter website tomorrow morning for confirmation, but it seems the college will be open and classes will be held at usual times. See all of you tomorrow. Post your assignments (only 2 posted at this time!)
Using all of your readings, class discussions and critiques of advertising images and the sexism, racism and power hierarchies found in so many of these, find or construct an alternative to these mainstream images and explain why it is different. Carefully draw out advertising strategies and goals and provide alternative paths for the industry or alternative anti-advertising messages.
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DUE 2/27
CLASSES ON TOMORROW 2/27!!!
As of tonight 2/26 at 8pm all classes are on for 2/27. Please check the Hunter website tomorrow morning for confirmation, but it seems the college will be open and classes will be held at usual times. See all of you tomorrow. Post your assignments (only 2 posted at this time!)
POST 2 -- On ways of seeing/viewing
2 bookmarks on delicious.com
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Please answer the following questions based on your readings and class discussion. Use your own experiences and realizations to help illustrate your understanding of the material - cite from the readings.
What is the male gaze and why is it a pervasive form of vision in popular culture? Give illustrative examples in a variety of media. What is the oppositional gaze and why (as described by bell hooks) has it developed? Give examples. How have you come to understand these structures and in what ways has this understanding changed your views about various media examples and of your own identity and role in these structures?
READINGS:
"Women as Audience" by Carolyn M.Byerly and Karen Ross
Introduction to Where the Girls Are - Susan Douglas
"The More You Subtract The More You Add: Cutting Girls Down to Size" by Jean Kilbourne
Introduction to Where the Girls Are - Susan Douglas
"The More You Subtract The More You Add: Cutting Girls Down to Size" by Jean Kilbourne
2 bookmarks on delicious.com
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*Reminder No Class Saturday February 13th
Due 2/20
READINGS:
John Berger - Ways of Seeing (chapters 2& 3)
bell hooks - The Oppositional Gaze
Laura Mulvey - Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
2 bookmarks on delicious.com
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Due 2/6
Due 2/20
READINGS:
John Berger - Ways of Seeing (chapters 2& 3)
bell hooks - The Oppositional Gaze
Laura Mulvey - Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
2 bookmarks on delicious.com
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Due 2/6
Post 1 on the class blog: Who do you think you are?
2 bookmarks on delicious.com
(see link below to our tag to get started)
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Link to syllabus
Women and Media Delicious page (MEDP384 tag)
2 bookmarks on delicious.com
(see link below to our tag to get started)
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Link to syllabus
Women and Media Delicious page (MEDP384 tag)
Delicious/tag/medp384
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Possibly the best use of a post-it note ever.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me want to vomit. It's all about POWER and degrading women. A woman getting on her knees to apply her lipstick-- like her beauty can only be reflected by his crotch.
ReplyDeleteIndeed! This is why we need to make different kinds of images. Images we are more proud of, images we feel reflect who we really are and how we want to be. We are better.
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