Analysis of the text "The Walking 99%" keywords and the intersectionality of gender and race. Parameters for image analysis.

6 Fevereiro 2019, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Analysis of the text "The Walking 99%" keywords and the intersectionality of gender and race.Main arguments, keywords, underlying assumptions. 

Signs of Life (gender, class, race, sexuality and flux), pp. 458-461

Short definition of intersectionality and other critical categories of culture: ethnicity, religion, politics, age/generation, body-ableness.

http://popularamericana.blogspot.com/2019/01/hw-for-feb-4-ii-waking-99.html

Parameters for image analysis: appearance (light, texture, color); kind (abstract, figurative, realist...); composition, emotions conveyed, audience, response demanded, axes.

Definitions of culture. Discussion of semiotics and signs in popular culture.

4 Fevereiro 2019, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

· “Introduction- Popular Signs: Or, Everything You Always Knew about American Culture (but Nobody Asked),” 1-19

· “Writing about Popular Culture,” 20-32

· Rose Sorooshian “The Walking 99 %” (photocopy store) – pp. 43-52

Not Taught.

30 Janeiro 2019, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Professor was juri at PhD viva.

Introduction to the course.

28 Janeiro 2019, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Presentation of syllabus, evaluation criteria and activities. 

·       In-class video: “Does Pop Culture Need to Be ‘Popular’?”

https://mpbn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/5027a01f-d507-4d6c-bcab-cd6a7adc6327/does-pop-culture-need-to-be-popular-pbs-idea-channel/ (10 Minutes)