Sumários
Discussion of creative writing with integration of class subjects; Madonna as overdetermined symbol. Guest: Anabela Duarte.
12 Novembro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Madonna as overdetermined symbol: http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/11/madonna.html
Discussion of creative writing with integration of class subjects: teacher's model and students' contributions: http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/11/creative-writing-on-video-like-prayer.html
Debate with invited guest: Anabela Duarte: the 80s pop/rock scene in Portugal; the videos of Mler Ife Dada and intersections with American (Popular) Culture: http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/11/two-videos-by-mler-ife-dada.html
Jose I. Prieto-Arranz on "The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna". Postmodernism, pop music and rock videos. Practice exercise on creative writing.
9 Novembro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Jose I. Prieto-Arranz on "The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna" (2012).
Some keywords: parody, pastiche, collage, de-differentiation, a-historicism.
Postmodernism, pop music and rock videos. Practice exercise on creative writing with video prompt from Madonna's "Like a Prayer."
Delivery and correction of the 2nd written exercise; discussion and instructions for final essays.
5 Novembro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Silent reading of Pietro I. Arranz's article on Madonna.
Delivery and correction of the exercise of discourse/text analysis, based on Fahrenheit 451 by R. Bradbury.
Discussion and instructions for final essays: the narrative underlying a product of North-American popular culture (in pairs.)
Invited guests: Pedro Alves and Rute Lizardo from teatromosca, on the production of Fahrenheit 451.
2 Novembro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Invited guests: Pedro Alves and Rute Lizardo from teatromosca, on the stage adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 (forthcoming).
Influences of American (popular) culture: http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/blog-post.html
Dramatized readings.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - cont. and preparation for discurse analysis exercise, followed by said exercise.
29 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451. Utopia and dystopia.
The medium as the message; the shrinking of context.
Discourse analysis exercise.