The video above is an ABC interview with the star where she speaks of her actions - so please write a personal response to the ethical questions Catfish brings up.
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Marshall McLuhan
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No Disqus response this week but please read the Marshall McLuhan reading on Blackboard.
MPAA - censorship or guidance?
Final Paper
The final paper is up on Blackboard under “Assignments.” The paper is due May 17th. Also, please read the M.M. Bakhtin - In Practice: Parody & Laughter, which is in the same section.
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For next week, watch any situation comedy (Think The Office, Two & a Half Men, or anything that is 1/2 hour & a comedy) and discuss gender roles - have they changed since the ground-breaking early Feminist years of Maude & All in the Family? How are they different or how are they the same? Has there been real progress in gender representation on television?
The episodes of Maude we watched can be found on YouTube - start here
Please read the bell hooks piece on Blackboard and respond to thoughts on race & representation and how that relates to the Blaxploitation films we saw clips of today.
No response on Disqus needed. Read bell hooks on Blackboard. Paper deadline extended by 1 week to 4/12. Email me w/ questions.
Please post any response you want to Jesus Camp or you can discuss the tactics used to make the children into who they are.
Did Chris Rock “get it wrong?”
Respond to the article here.
Read the selection on Marxist Theory on Blackboard (CUNY Portal) and respond to any concept you wish to on regards to the episode of The Prisoner we watched which is also discussed in the text.
Those of you who were absent, I have extended the deadline for the paper by one week and we discussed additional incorporation of print sources. Please email me about this.
