Unit 1 Readings
Weeks 1-2: The Social Outcast and the Price of Access to the In-Crowd
Scholarly Reading: (Type of Citation: Book; Type of Source: Scholarly)
Listen to online lecture on the following piece of scholarship. You do not need to read this chapter, but you are required to know the important elements of the chapter outlined in the lecture
Eagleton, Terry. “What is Literature.” Literary Theory: An Introduction. (1996) (Book)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~engl5vr/Eagle1.html (Links to an external site.)
com/2009/07/summary-of-what-is-literature-by-terry.html” class=”external” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>http://anilpinto.blogspot.com/2009/07/summary-of-what-is-literature-by-terry.html (Links to an external site.)
(Links to an external site.)Watch: Salter, Anastasia. “Not Just Point & Click: The Poetics of Choice (& Resistance) in Narrative Video Games:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiIkC69sB_g&t=154s (Links to an external site.)
(Links to an external site.)Read: Corrigan, Tim. “Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing.” A Short Guide to Writing about Film. (2010)
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Corrigan, Film Terms chap_2_.pdf 
Download Corrigan, Film Terms chap_2_.pdf
Play this Game a Few Times: http://www.depressionquest.com/dqfinal.html# (Links to an external site.)
Play this Game a Few Times: http://www.phonestory.org/
Literary Reading: (Type of Citation: Short Story in Anthology; Type of Source: Literature)
Smith, Danez. “Homie.” Homie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZ49CpQE6k (Links to an external site.)
Holiday, Harmony. “Lunch Poems.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YgGgHlQTpw (Links to an external site.)
Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone (Chapter 1): Children of Blood and Bone Chapters 1 to 6.pdf Download Children of Blood and Bone Chapters 1 to 6.pdf
Mullins, Gwen. “Where Are You From, Honey?” The Bitter Southener. com/folklore-project/where-you-from-honey-southern-accent” target=”_blank” class=”external” rel=”noopener”>https://bittersoutherner.com/folklore-project/where-you-from-honey-southern-accent (Links to an external site.)
Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Ones Who Walk Away from the Omelas.” New Diminsions (1973).
LeGuin Omelas.pdf Download LeGuin Omelas.pdf
Film Clips Viewing: (Type of Citation: Film; Type of Source: Literary)
Hunger Games. Dir. Suzanne Collins. Perf. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Woody Harrelson. Lionsgate, 2012.
Audio Listening: (Type of Citation: Audio Sound Recording; Type of Source: Literary)
Childish Gambino. “This Is America.”
Childish Gambino – This Is America (Official Video) (Links to an external site.)
Public Enemy. “Harder Than You Think.” To Sell a Soul to a Souless People Who Sold Their Soul? (2007) & “Fight the Power.” Fear of a Black Planet.
Harder Than You Think [OFFICIAL VIDEO] (Links to an external site.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHe5fxS3dA (Links to an external site.)
MGMT. “Time to Pretend.” Oracular Spectacular. (2008)
MGMT – Time To Pretend (Links to an external site.)
Rihanna. “Man Down” Loud. (2011)
Rihanna – Man Down (Links to an external site.)
Unit 2 Readings
Negotiating Identity: Betrayals, Redemptions, and the Present
Scholarly Reading: (Type of Citation: Book; Type of Source: Scholarly)
Listen to online lecture on the following piece of scholarship. You do not need to read this chapter, but you are required to know the important elements of the chapter outlined in the lecture
Kellner, Douglas. “Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture.”
http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/SAGEcs.htm (Links to an external site.)
Corrigan, Timothy “Film Terms”
Corrigan, Film Terms chap(2)(2).pdf Download Corrigan, Film Terms chap(2)(2).pdf
Literary Reading: (Type of Citation: Poem on Website; Type of Source: Literature)
Giovanni, Nikki. “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: We’re Going to Mars.” (2002)
Nikki Giovanni – We’re going to Mars (Links to an external site.)
Hammad, Suheir. “First Writing Since: Poem on Crisis of Terror.” In Motion Magazine. (2001)
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ac/shammad.html (Links to an external site.)
Suheir Hammad – Def Jam Poetry (Links to an external site.)
Baraka, Amiri. “Somebody Blew Up America.” CounterPunch.org. 03 October 2002. Web.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/10/03/somebody-blew-up-america/ (Links to an external site.)
Amiri Baraka “Somebody Blew Up America” (Links to an external site.)
Suárez, Mario. “El Hoyo” Chicano Sketches. (1947)
el_hoyo.pdf Download el_hoyo.pdf
Laviera, Tato. “AmeRican.” AmeRican. (1985)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58197/american (Links to an external site.)
Film Viewing: (Type of Citation: Film; Type of Source: Scholarly)
Real Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People. Dir. Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally. Perf. Jack Shaheen. Media Education Foundation, 2006. (Available on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRUs_PCWeXI (Links to an external site.)
ReelBadArabs.mp4 Download ReelBadArabs.mp4
Film Clip Viewing: (Type of Citation: Film; Type of Source: Literary)
Crash. Dir. Paul Haggis. Perf. Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, Chris Bridges, Bahar Soomekh, Michael Peña, Larenz Tate, Jennifer Esposita, Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Karina Arroyave, and Ryan Phillippe. Lionsgate, 2004.
Audio Listening: (Type of Citation: Audio Sound Recording; Type of Source: Literary)
Nas. “The World Is Yours.” Illmatic. 1994
Nas – The World Is Yours (Links to an external site.)
Radiohead. “Everything in Its Right Place.” Kid A. (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDcpWmHMP7k (Links to an external site.)
The Narcicyst. “Phatwa.” The Narcicyst & “Spy Oud.” Fear of a Muslim Planet.
Narcy – PHATWA (Links to an external site.)
06 Spy Oud – The Narcicyst Fear Of An Arab Planet (Links to an external site.)
Lowkey. “Obama Nation.” Soundtrack to the Struggle.
LOWKEY – OBAMA NATION (OFFICIAL VIDEO) – BANNED FROM TV (Links to an external site.)
Submit your answers to the following:
Important Ideas from Eagleton’s “What is Literature?” (Hint: The Unit 1 Video covers Eagleton’s chapter)
- How is literature defined? Who gets to define it? According to what terms?
- Why is the definition of literature always changing?
- Does literature have universal meaning? If not, what kind of meaning does it have? How does it get meaning? What influences that meaning?
- What influences interpretations of literature? How can literature be influenced based on the reader? How can literature be influenced based on ideology?
Important Ideas from Kellner’s “Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture.” (Hint: The Unit 2 Video covers Kellner’s chapter)
- What are the three basic principles of cultural studies?
- What do cultural codes have to do with interpreting literature?
- What do reality, construction of the Other, and identity have to do with interpreting literature?
- What is culture?
Important Ideas from Corrigan’s “Film Terms” (Hint: The Corrigan Reading covers this material)
- What is a theme?
- What is narrative? What are the different parts of narrative?
- What are characters? What are two types of characters mentioned by Corrigan?
- What is point-of-view? What distinguishes film point-of-view from more straightforward definitions of literary point-of-view?
- What are mise-en-scéne and realism? What components of the film and film making go into mise-en-scéne and realism?
- What is a shot? What are the components of a shot? How are they important?
- What is editing? What are the components of editing? How are editing choices important?
- What is the importance of sound?
Definitions You Need to Know (Hint: Google contains these definitions)
- Social Criticism
- Historical Criticism
- Narrator
- Speaker
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