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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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