"EXOTIC" BODIES,
"COOL" CULTURES, GLOBAL FLOWS

Course Schedule - Women and the Media - Units: One | Two | Three | Four | Five

UNIT ONE: MYTHICAL NORMS & CONSTRUCTIONS OF “DIFFERENCE”
Jan. 24 Course overview and introduction. | Video: Lip.
Jan. 26 CP: (1) Coloured White, Not Coloured.
Jan. 31 CP: (2) Brain, Brow, and Booty; (3) Xuxa!
Feb. 2

CP: (4) Gender and Culture of Empire. | Video: Hollywood Harems.
Due: Proposal; Feminist Community Media Sign-Up
Feb. 7 Practices of Looking: chapters 1-3.
Feb. 9 Video: The Celluloid Closet.
Feb. 14 CP: (5) Who's a Sissy?
Feb. 16 Web Design: Introduction to Dreamweaver (Digital Workshop 1) | Due: Annotated Bibliography.
Winter Break, February 20-24, 2006
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UNIT TWO: COMMODITY FETISHISM & BODY POLITICS

Feb. 28 Practices of Looking : chapter 6. | CP: (6) Naked Capitalists. | Website: Adbusters.
Mar. 2 Media workshop: Introduction to Photoshop (Digital Workshop 1).
Mar. 7 Due: Media Watch Collection.
Mar. 9 Video: Performing the Border.
Mar. 14 CP: (7) Latin Women in the Global Information Network. | Paradigms and Perversions; Mythic Hybrid.
Mar. 16 Video: The Darker Side of Black . | Due: Media Education Workshop Proposal.
Mar. 21

CP: (8) The Identity and Image of Women in Hip-Hop; (9) Racializing the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
From Sweatshop to Hip-Hop.
Mar. 23

CP: (10) The Butt; (11) My Jewish Nose; (12) Finding My Eye-dentity.
Video: Hair Piece. | Back to Top

UNIT THREE: BEAUTY & THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE

Mar. 28 Video: Miss America. | Due: Media Project: Option A.
Mar. 30 CP: (13) What the Miss World Pageant Can Teach about Globalization.
Apr. 4

CP: (14) Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory. | Video: The Body Beautiful.
Due: Film Festival Program (Film Festival Group)/ Conference Program.
Apr. 6 Course Exam.
Spring break, April 10-14, 2006
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UNIT FOUR: WORLD VIEWS & CULTURE WARS
Apr. 18

Practices of Looking : chapters 4-5, 7, 9.
Website: Breakthrough. | Machinima: The French Democracy. | Film Festival Begins (See Schedule)
Apr. 20 Video: In Whose Honor? | Due: Feminist Community Media Program.
Apr. 25 Video: Color Adjustment.
Apr. 27 CP: (15) White Flight.
Due May 1 (E-Journal Revisions Deadline) in transcending silence… mailbox or my mailbox (if manuscript was not accepted) both in SS 341, 4 pm : Media Project Final Draft (Option A). Back to Top
UNIT FIVE: TAKE BACK THE MEDIA
May 2 -9 Feminist Community Media Events (See Schedule)
May 9 Due: Assignment Checklist & Self-Evaluation.
May 11 Due: Class E-News.
May 15 Due: Annotated Bibliography - Option B (4 pm in my mailbox or office).