Jan. 20

Course overview and introduction.

Jan. 25

CP: (1) Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.

Jan. 27

Exercise: Media Watch.
Video: Culture Jammers.

Feb. 1

CP: (2) The Wedding Industrial Complex.

Feb. 3

CP: (3) Who's a Sissy?

Feb. 8

CP: (4) Naked Capitalists; (5) Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power.
Online: Meet Bindi.

Feb. 10

Presentation by Meredith Levande: "Women, Pop Music, and Pornography."
Due: Photo (or Audio) Essay.

Feb. 15

Video: The Darker Side of Black.
Due: Proposal - choice of Option A or Option B for writing project; Sign up for Website Teams.

Feb. 17

CP: (6) The Image and Identity of Women in Hip-Hop.
Online: From Sweatshop to Hip-Hop.

Feb. 22

holiday - no class.

Feb. 24

CP: (7) Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves.
Webite: Grrl Gamer.

Mar. 1

Patchwork Girl.

Mar. 3

Web Design Workshop.
Due: First Draft of E-Journal Submission - Option A.

Mar. 8

Video: Performing the Border.
CP: (8) Latin Women in the Global Information Network.
Due: Sci-Fi contest submission (deadline: Mar. 15, 2005) - Option B.

Mar. 10

CP: (9) White Flight.

UNIT FOUR: EXOTIC BODIES

Mar. 15

CP: (10) On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism.
Video: Nice Coloured Girls.

Mar. 17

Media Workshop.
Due: Annotated Bibliography.

Mar. 29

Scheherazade Goes West.

Mar. 31

Video: Hollywood Harems.
Due: Second Draft for E-Journal.

Apr. 5-7

The Bluest Eye.

Apr. 12

Video: Mickey Mouse Monopoly.
Due: Website Team Narrative.

Apr. 14

Body Outlaws.- pp. 14-31; 62-67; 78-95; 104-13; 124-32; 144-51; 159-75; 188-95; 241.

Apr. 19

Video: Miss America.
Due: Third and Final Draft for E-Journal Submission.

Apr. 21

CP: (11) Miss America: Whose Ideal?

Apr. 26

CP: (12) Medicalization of Racial Features.
Video: Two Lies.

Apr. 28

Video: The Body Beautiful.

May 3

Course Review.

May 4

All Day Web Design Workshop (10 am-5 pm).
Due May 9, 12 noon in SS 344: Website (on CD/disk).