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A blog for the Hunter College Women and Media class Fall 2009
A blog for the Hunter College Women and Media class Fall 2009
Due Monday 12/14
Final Projects!
Due Monday 12/7
Final Projects!
___________________________________________
Due Monday 11/30
READINGS
On Blackboard:
A Cyberroom of One's Own - Sarah Stein
Feminist Art Practice and the Mass Media - Pen Dalton
Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier - Gillian Youngs
Veiled Threat by Arwa Aburawa Bitch Magazine
http://bitchmagazine.org/article/veiled-threat
The Feminist Evolution ArtNews December 2009
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2800¤t=True
Where the Great Women Artists are Now
Interview with Linda Nochlin Art News February 2007
http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2216
Interview with Cat Mazza on We-Make-Money-Not-Art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/01/how-and-when-did-you.php
2 bookmarks on delicious
____________________________________________
Due Monday 11/23
Final project proposal update (1 page) and bibliography (at least 10 consulted sources)
Final project work-in-progress in class presentations
________________________________________
Due Monday 11/16
Visitor Cheryl Furjanic --filmmaker and Professor at NYU
Post 5 Due Choose and research a female film director/screenwriter and a single work or several works. Describe their approach to film making and explain their role as auteur. Using references to the readings and references to your own research (be sure to cite) explain the work, especially as it relates to auteur theory. How does the filmmaker explain their work and their process? How are the works and filmmakers received? How are they critiqued?
Readings Due Sync Or Swim by Cheryl Furjanic (on Blackboard)
and explore the website http://www.synchromovie.com/
2 bookmarks on delicious
________________________________________
Meetings scheduled with me 11/2 and 11/4 click here.
Due Monday 11/9
On Black board:
Introduction "Making Movie Magic" from Reel to Real by bell hooks
"Author/Autor: Feminist Literary Theory and Feminist Film" by Maggie Humm
"Debra Zimmerman and Women Make Movies" and Catherine Saalfield: Art and Activism" by Judith Redding and Victoria A. Brownworth
Please look at the Women Make Movies website http://www.wmm.com/
____________________________________
Due Monday 11/2
Post 4 Due Research and discuss an alternative news organization or independent news source that is by or for women. You can also choose to concentrate on a specific person. Explain the publication or online source in depth, explain it's origins and why it is successful or necessary as an alternative media source. What is the role of gender in these subjects?
We will be reviewing some of your posts in class on 11/2, please read your fellow students posts and be sure to post a few comments.
READINGS:
FreePress Media Ownership Policy
http://freepress.net/policy/ownership
Media Ownership: Impact on Minority Ownership and Localism
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/121107_a.html
Media Ownership Fact Sheet - NOW
http://www.now.org/issues/media/women_in_media_facts.html
Diversity in Media Ownership & Employment (a list of resources and articles-- read through a few)
http://www.civilrights.org/media/ownership/
_________________________________
Due Monday 10/26
1 page Project Proposal for final projects printed and handed in- description of content and the medium you will use to create it. Use visuals if necessary: sketches, still images etc. Also include possible resources (A full bibliography will be required later with the project.)
Broadcast News: When Women Become Two out of Three
http://womensmediacenter.com/ex/090809.html
The Rise of the Female Anchor
By Alessandra Stanley
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/weekinreview/06stanley.html
Rachael Papers
http://issuu.com/bitchmagazine/docs/the_rachel_papers/3?mode=embed&documentId=090225195412-a61ca4d3a7b34c879210801d39c49c40&layout=white
Article on Blackboard
Women in Broadcasting - Barbara Murray Eddings
___________________________________
Due MONDAY 10/19
Ingrid Dahl visiting from Youth Media Reporter
*no Post due
**READINGS -- all online
Highlighting Girls in Youth Media
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/08/the_power_and_impact_of_gender.html
The Power and Impact of Gender-Specific Media Literacy
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/08/highlighting_girls_in_youth_me.html
Explorers of Exchange: Girls Traverse the Digital Divide
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2007/10/explorers_of_exchange_girls_tr.html
Youth Media is Coming Out
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2008/06/youth_media_is_coming_out.html
Media Savvy Arab Girls Respond to the Mainstream
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2007/11/media_savvy_arab_girls_respond.html
Gender Subversion Kit (pdf for download)
http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/posters/gender_subversion_front.pdf
_______________________________
Due WEDNESDAY 10/14
**Post 3 Using all of your readings, class discussions and critiques of advertising images and the sexism, racism and power hierarchies found in so many of these, find or construct an alternative to these mainstream images and explain why it is different. Carefully draw out advertising strategies and goals and provide alternative paths for the industry or alternative anti-advertising messages.
**READINGS
1.Susan Bordo -- "Hunger as Ideology" from Unbearable Weight
2.Maggie Wykes/Barrie Gunter --"Conclusion" from The Media and Body Image
3.Naomi Wolf -- "Culture" from The Beauty Myth
4.online: Media's Effect On Girls: Body Image And Gender Identity http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mediaeffect.shtml
from National Institute of Media and the Family
Final project topics due.
_______________________________
Due MONDAY 10/05
**No POST due
READINGS:
**4 short essays from Gender Race and Class in Media
-Sex Lies and Advertising - Steinem Ms. Magazine
-Beauty and the Beast of Advertising - Jean Kilbourne
-Reading Images Critically - Douglas Kellner
-Commodity Lesbianism - Danae Clark
**Provocateur -Anthony Cortese - Constructed Bodies, Deconstructing Ads Sexism in Advertising
**2 bookmarks on delicious
_______________________________
Due TUESDAY 9/29
**POST 2 On ways of seeing (300 words minimum)
Please answer the following questions based on your readings and class discussion. Use your own experiences and realizations to help illustrate your understanding of the material.
What is the male gaze and why is it a pervasive form of vision in popular culture? Give illustrative examples in a variety of media. What is the oppositional gaze and why (as described by bell hooks) has it developed? Give examples. How have you come to understand these structures and in what ways has this understanding changed your views about various media examples and of your own identity and role in these structures?
** READINGS
"Women as Audience" by Carolyn M.Byerly and Karen Ross
Introduction to Where the Girls Are - Susan Douglas
"The More You Subtract The More You Add: Cutting Girls Down to Size" by Jean Kilbourne
**2 bookmarks on delicious
____________________________________________
Due 9/21
** READINGS
John Berger - Ways of Seeing (chapters 2& 3)
bell hooks - The Oppositional Gaze
Laura Mulvey - Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
**2 bookmarks on delicious
___________________________________________
Link to syllabus
Women and Media Delicious page (MEDP384 tag)
***Readings are on the class Blackboard site.***
Final Projects!
Due Monday 12/7
Final Projects!
___________________________________________
Due Monday 11/30
READINGS
On Blackboard:
A Cyberroom of One's Own - Sarah Stein
Feminist Art Practice and the Mass Media - Pen Dalton
Cyberspace: The New Feminist Frontier - Gillian Youngs
Veiled Threat by Arwa Aburawa Bitch Magazine
http://bitchmagazine.org/article/veiled-threat
The Feminist Evolution ArtNews December 2009
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2800¤t=True
Where the Great Women Artists are Now
Interview with Linda Nochlin Art News February 2007
http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2216
Interview with Cat Mazza on We-Make-Money-Not-Art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/01/how-and-when-did-you.php
2 bookmarks on delicious
____________________________________________
Due Monday 11/23
Final project proposal update (1 page) and bibliography (at least 10 consulted sources)
Final project work-in-progress in class presentations
________________________________________
Due Monday 11/16
Visitor Cheryl Furjanic --filmmaker and Professor at NYU
Post 5 Due Choose and research a female film director/screenwriter and a single work or several works. Describe their approach to film making and explain their role as auteur. Using references to the readings and references to your own research (be sure to cite) explain the work, especially as it relates to auteur theory. How does the filmmaker explain their work and their process? How are the works and filmmakers received? How are they critiqued?
Readings Due Sync Or Swim by Cheryl Furjanic (on Blackboard)
and explore the website http://www.synchromovie.com/
2 bookmarks on delicious
________________________________________
Meetings scheduled with me 11/2 and 11/4 click here.
Due Monday 11/9
On Black board:
Introduction "Making Movie Magic" from Reel to Real by bell hooks
"Author/Autor: Feminist Literary Theory and Feminist Film" by Maggie Humm
"Debra Zimmerman and Women Make Movies" and Catherine Saalfield: Art and Activism" by Judith Redding and Victoria A. Brownworth
Please look at the Women Make Movies website http://www.wmm.com/
____________________________________
Due Monday 11/2
Post 4 Due Research and discuss an alternative news organization or independent news source that is by or for women. You can also choose to concentrate on a specific person. Explain the publication or online source in depth, explain it's origins and why it is successful or necessary as an alternative media source. What is the role of gender in these subjects?
We will be reviewing some of your posts in class on 11/2, please read your fellow students posts and be sure to post a few comments.
READINGS:
FreePress Media Ownership Policy
http://freepress.net/policy/ownership
Media Ownership: Impact on Minority Ownership and Localism
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/121107_a.html
Media Ownership Fact Sheet - NOW
http://www.now.org/issues/media/women_in_media_facts.html
Diversity in Media Ownership & Employment (a list of resources and articles-- read through a few)
http://www.civilrights.org/media/ownership/
_________________________________
Due Monday 10/26
1 page Project Proposal for final projects printed and handed in- description of content and the medium you will use to create it. Use visuals if necessary: sketches, still images etc. Also include possible resources (A full bibliography will be required later with the project.)
Broadcast News: When Women Become Two out of Three
http://womensmediacenter.com/ex/090809.html
The Rise of the Female Anchor
By Alessandra Stanley
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/weekinreview/06stanley.html
Rachael Papers
http://issuu.com/bitchmagazine/docs/the_rachel_papers/3?mode=embed&documentId=090225195412-a61ca4d3a7b34c879210801d39c49c40&layout=white
Article on Blackboard
Women in Broadcasting - Barbara Murray Eddings
___________________________________
Due MONDAY 10/19
Ingrid Dahl visiting from Youth Media Reporter
*no Post due
**READINGS -- all online
Highlighting Girls in Youth Media
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/08/the_power_and_impact_of_gender.html
The Power and Impact of Gender-Specific Media Literacy
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/08/highlighting_girls_in_youth_me.html
Explorers of Exchange: Girls Traverse the Digital Divide
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2007/10/explorers_of_exchange_girls_tr.html
Youth Media is Coming Out
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2008/06/youth_media_is_coming_out.html
Media Savvy Arab Girls Respond to the Mainstream
http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2007/11/media_savvy_arab_girls_respond.html
Gender Subversion Kit (pdf for download)
http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/posters/gender_subversion_front.pdf
_______________________________
Due WEDNESDAY 10/14
**Post 3 Using all of your readings, class discussions and critiques of advertising images and the sexism, racism and power hierarchies found in so many of these, find or construct an alternative to these mainstream images and explain why it is different. Carefully draw out advertising strategies and goals and provide alternative paths for the industry or alternative anti-advertising messages.
**READINGS
1.Susan Bordo -- "Hunger as Ideology" from Unbearable Weight
2.Maggie Wykes/Barrie Gunter --"Conclusion" from The Media and Body Image
3.Naomi Wolf -- "Culture" from The Beauty Myth
4.online: Media's Effect On Girls: Body Image And Gender Identity http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mediaeffect.shtml
from National Institute of Media and the Family
Final project topics due.
_______________________________
Due MONDAY 10/05
**No POST due
READINGS:
**4 short essays from Gender Race and Class in Media
-Sex Lies and Advertising - Steinem Ms. Magazine
-Beauty and the Beast of Advertising - Jean Kilbourne
-Reading Images Critically - Douglas Kellner
-Commodity Lesbianism - Danae Clark
**Provocateur -Anthony Cortese - Constructed Bodies, Deconstructing Ads Sexism in Advertising
**2 bookmarks on delicious
_______________________________
Due TUESDAY 9/29
**POST 2 On ways of seeing (300 words minimum)
Please answer the following questions based on your readings and class discussion. Use your own experiences and realizations to help illustrate your understanding of the material.
What is the male gaze and why is it a pervasive form of vision in popular culture? Give illustrative examples in a variety of media. What is the oppositional gaze and why (as described by bell hooks) has it developed? Give examples. How have you come to understand these structures and in what ways has this understanding changed your views about various media examples and of your own identity and role in these structures?
** READINGS
"Women as Audience" by Carolyn M.Byerly and Karen Ross
Introduction to Where the Girls Are - Susan Douglas
"The More You Subtract The More You Add: Cutting Girls Down to Size" by Jean Kilbourne
**2 bookmarks on delicious
____________________________________________
Due 9/21
** READINGS
John Berger - Ways of Seeing (chapters 2& 3)
bell hooks - The Oppositional Gaze
Laura Mulvey - Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
**2 bookmarks on delicious
___________________________________________
Link to syllabus
Women and Media Delicious page (MEDP384 tag)
***Readings are on the class Blackboard site.***
Delicious/tag/medp384
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- Lenses of Perception
- Gaze
- The Male Gaze
- Male Gaze and Oppositional Gaze
- THE MALE GAZE=THE MALE TRUTH
- 9/29/09 Presentation
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- The male gaze as I understand it is the way a woma...
- The Media Controls Our Brains
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- The Male Gaze and Dance
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- The Gaze
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- The Male Gaze
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- Gazing in the Grass
- Ways of Seeing
- Even in Children's Cinema...
- The Male Gaze
- gazing or hazing.. which do you do?
- The Gaze
- Lori J Palminteri
- Ways of Seeing
- Ways of Seeing
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- Who am I?
- Media Terrorizing Mi Vida (My Life)
- Who do you think you are?
- allie po is my (nick)name
- Who Am I?
- wax off, wax me.
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ME and you Astrid are in the same boat. I also like TV programming and producing. I use to be the producer of a small media project called Purpose TV but it failed. So now I am training to become a kick boxer :)
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