“Encoding/Decoding” (Stuart Hall)

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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.),…

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Syllabus: Images of the Disabled

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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…

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Assignment: Land of Inopportunity: The Hunger Games’ Illustration of Work, Food, Class, Gender and Race Inequality in the United States

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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…

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Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, 2011)

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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…

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