Stuart Hall’s seminal essay on the process of producing, disseminating, and interpreting texts. Available here: https://we.riseup.net/assets/102142/appadurai.pdf#page=202 From Stuart Hall, “Encoding/decoding.” In Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Love, and Paul Willis (eds.),…
Available here from Teaching Media: http://www.teachingmedia.org/images-of-the-disabled/ “Depictions of illness and physical disability reflect, often in reversal, our beliefs about merit, human worth, dignity, community, and the definition of a life well…
Full assignment/download available here: http://pubs.lib.umn.edu/tmq/vol4/iss1/6/ Course: Broadcast News “During a six-month period in late 2014 to early 2015, two events occurred in the Midwest of the United States that led to…
Full syllabus here: http://homepage.smc.edu/martinez_luis/SyllabusFall2012Monday.pdf Additional resources here: http://homepage.smc.edu/martinez_luis/ “Media Studies 10 examines how popular culture and journalism from the 1920s to the present have helped perpetuate stereotypes of men, women and minority…
Full assignment details here: http://www.teachingmedia.org/land-inopportunity-hunger-games-illustration-work-food-class-gender-race-inequality-united-states/ “This analysis helps media users consider real-life issues of inequality, work, food, class, gender, and race. To examine these issues, the lesson has two components: analysis…
“New technology, same old racism. The practices and forces that constitute post-cinema are enabling new ways of visualizing race and racism. The new racist logic of the digital age is…
Racial bias in photographic technology.
Full film available here: http://therepresentationproject.org/film/miss-representation/see-the-film/buy-rent-stream/ “Miss Representation explores women’s under-representation in positions of power and influence and challenges the limited and often disparaging portrayals of women in media. Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel…
Full film available: http://wonderwomendoc.com/screenings/streaming/ “WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s…
Film available online: http://www.tellingpictures.com/celluloidcloset The acclaimed documentary based on Vito Russo’s groundbreaking book, The Celluloid Closet explores the hidden subtext of more than 100 Hollywood movies – from The Maltese Falcon…
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