Sumários
Introduction to science-fiction (guest speaker Adelaide Meira Serras); Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik's 2001 Space Odyssey
26 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Introduction to science-fiction (guest speaker Adelaide Meira Serras)
The Simpsons's "The Shinning" and meta-television. Introduction to R. Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
22 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
"The Shinning" by The Simpsons - comparison with Stanley Kubrik's Shining. The TV and the familial bond.
Ray Bradbury: biobibligraphy.
The "parlour walls" and sci-fi.
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/fahrenheit-451-by-ray-bradbury.html
Discourse analysis of the inicipt of Fahrenheit 451.
Symbology in the novel.
(No attendance required - teacher in service during the 1st hour of class). Delivery and correction of the first written exercise.
19 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Delivery and correction of the first written exercise.
Assessment criteria: writing and structuring of ideas; employing multimodal/semyotics methods of analysis; articulation/contextualization according to course's subject matter(s).
Historical overview of the 20s, 30s and 40s through the "production of culture perspective". Race, gender, politics, sexuality, religion and age/generation in "All in the Family" (1971-1979)
15 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Historical overview of the 20s, 30s and 40s through the "production of culture perspective" (R. A. Peterson).
American Popular TV: The Macro and Micro Systems - http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/american-popular-tv-macro-and-micro.html
Quotationalism and Hyper-Ironism: citation of previous media culture products and postmodernism (concepts of parody and pastiche).
Race, gender, politics, sexuality, religion and age/generation in "All in the Family" (1971-1979): http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/all-in-family-meet-bunkers-homework-for.html
Discourse analysis of "All in the Family"'s opening credits and comparison with the Simpson's parody:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/all-in-family-and-simpsons-parody.html
Analysis of "The House in Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett (cont.); Written exercise: image analysis.
12 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Analysis of "The House in Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett (1924).
Brief biography of Dashiell Hammett: private eye, social activist, writer.
Analysis of the incipit of "The House in Turk Steet": uncertainty, hearsay, deceptions, lies.
Written exercise: image analysis of Dashiell Hammett in the mid-1920s.