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Abbreviations in Schedule: CP - Course Packet; GM: Gender, Race, and Class in Media; FV: Feminism and Visual Culture Reader; TC: Technicolor.

*dates when special workshops on web design are held for Class website group members in Digital Workshop 2 of the Science Library (March 8 and 29). Other students in class have the option of attending these sessions.

Jan. 21 Course Overview/ Screenings: Culture Jamming and Breakthrough.
  UNIT ONE: IN/VISIBLE BODIES
Jan. 26 FV: chapter 9 / CP: Viewing in the Dark: Toward a Black Feminist Approach to Film.
Jan. 28 Online Lecture: Blue Notes and Butterflies: Thoughts on Black Women's Vocality.
  UNIT TWO: RACIAL FORMATIONS & VIOLENT SUBJECTS
Feb. 2 Screening: The Darker Side of Black.
Feb. 4 GM: chapters 13-14, 38.
Feb. 9 Evening Screening: Bowling for Columbine . / no regular class session.
Feb. 11 GM: chapters 33-34, 37.
Feb. 16 holiday - no class.
  UNIT THREE: SEXUAL POLITICS
Feb. 18 FV: chapters 19, 21, 24.
Feb. 23 GM: chapters 4, 42. / CP: Naked, Neutered, Noble: The Black Female Body in American Culture and the Problem of Photographic History.
Feb. 25 Screening: The Body Beautiful / Due: Media Review.
Mar. 1 Screening: Miss America.
Mar. 3 FV: chapters 35-36, 38, 40.
Mar. 8* Evening Screening: The Celluloid Closet. / no regular class session - Workshop for Class Website Group: Digital Workshop 2, Science Library.
Mar. 10 GM: chapters 9-10, 56-57.
Mar. 15 Screening: Slaying the Dragon.
Mar. 17 GM: chapter 63. / FV: chapter 33.
  UNIT FOUR: TECHNICOLOR VISIONS & GLOBAL FLOWS
Mar. 22 Screening: Color Adjustment.
Mar. 24 CP: Baby Mama (Drama) and Baby Daddy (Trauma): Post-Soul Gender Politics/ White Flight.
Mar. 29* Evening Screening: Daughters of the Dust. / no regular class session - Workshop for Class Website Group: Digital Workshop 2, Science Library.
Mar. 31 FV: chapter 14 / CP: Dialogue between bell hooks and Julie Dash.
  Spring Break, April 5-9, 2003.
Apr. 12 TC: chapters 1, 2, 4, 7-9.
Apr. 14 Screening: Performing the Border.
Apr. 19 TC: chapter 10 / GM: chapters 28, 66. / FV: chapter 62.
Apr. 21 Due: Media Watch.
  UNIT FIVE: GLOBAL MEDIA & NATIONAL BODIES
Apr. 26 CP: Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema. / Screening: Hollywood Harems.
Apr. 28 Video: In Whose Honor?
  CONCLUSION: RESISTANCE & MEDIA ACTIVISM
May 3 Presentations - Media Projects: Creative Video and Resistance Advertising.
May 5 Presentations continued - Media Projects: Feminist Radio and Class Website.

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