2015 Professor Bigwood Responses 1780.6B Second Term
Response papers
Term Two.
Response Five: Due Jan 11. Ideology, Race and Gender in Advertising
This week we are thinking about the use of images in advertising and how these images are not
just innocentl
HUMA 1780B:
Lecture 22
Cyberpunk
Homework : 1) In Coursekit: Participatory Interactivity in
Electronic Media
2) Conclusion: Literature in the Media Landscape
3) Elinks to trailers for computer game where players
decisions affect the narrative
4) OPTIONAL:
Lecture 18: News
Media and Stories;
Media in War
Homework next week: Reading from Coursekit
1) In coursekit: article on two Postmodern
culture analysts: Baudrillard and
2) Jameson
3) E-link for movie: Pulp Fiction (warning:
violent scenes and a lot of swe
Lecture 22: Interactive/Immersive
in Media; Cyberspace: Internet;
Virtual Reality
Homework next week:
Study for Test
Final Exam: Monday 28th
7-9.30pm 2.5 hours;
200 word Tip Sheet (every word numbered)
Worth 15% of Final Grade
Ten T/F questions (1 mark
Lecture 21: Postmodernism,
Pastiche, Pulp Fiction
Homework next week: ) In Coursekit:
1) Bell, An Intro to Cyberculture Symbolic
Stories
2) Cavellaro, Preface to Cyberpunk and
Cyberculture
3) Excerpt on punk from Cyberpunk and
Cyberculture
4) Elink to mov
Lecture 17: Mass Popular Culture;
Modernism and Postmodernism
Homework next week (Television):
1) Elink to Mickey Mouse Monopoly
2) Elink to Videodrome Trailer
3) Lavery Lost and Long Term Television Narratives
4) The Message is the Medium
What is art? re
HUMA 1780.B
2015 Professor Bigwood
Tutorial Research Presentation (5% of your final mark)
Please read the following presentation topics carefully and choose a date and
topic on which you would like to present. You can do this by either telling your tutori
Lecture 15: Changes in Culture, Time
and Space, Community and Self
Homework next week:
1) Coursekit: excerpts from Arnheims Film as Art
2) Coursekit: Film and Home Video
3) Elink for the documentary film (about 20 min):
Reel Injun. On the Trail of the Hol
HUMA 1780.6B Lecture 13:
Thinking Critically about Ideology
and Advertising
Homework next week:1) excerpts from Wilson
(on car and nature tourism)
2) Stratton (Cyberspace and Globalization)
3) Ostwald (Virtual Communities)
Essay (1500-2000words): Electron
Lecture 16: Birth of Film Industry
and the Creation of the Injun in
Hollywood Movies
Homework next week: Television
1)Elink on Kerouac (on Modernist writing)
In Coursekit: 2) Eagleton on Postmodernity
3) Storey: Mass Culture in America:
the Post War Debat
