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Info For Thursday Oct 18
As I said in class, I will be away for Thursday's class, but class is still meeting - same place, same time.
A surprise film will be screened that will take us into the next project, which involves the techniques of montage and the concept of history. In place of a reading, you will write a response to the film on your blogs. Specifically, you should address the use of codes - as we've been discussing them - within the film. This is due Tuesday. Suggestion: use the time left in class to discuss the film amongst yourselves and write your posts in class.
Also due Tuesday will be the first stage of project 3.
This requires identifying a historic narrative that is not specific to your history (i.e. it could be described as widely known, or at least is significant on a wider social scale), yet one that you believe has significance for you personally. In terms of narrative, I mean an event or series of events, not a person or place more generally - something that is defined by time, with a beginning and end (according to the narrative). Some examples: MLK assassination, the moon landing, 2000 Presidential election, 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Hurricane Katrina, Larry Walter's 1982 weather balloon lawn chair flight, fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, fall of the Berlin wall, death of Rachel Corrie.
Here's what you need to bring: 1) one image of/related to the event 2) one narrative account from an institutional voice (newspaper, encyclopedia, etc) 3) one narrative account in a first-person voice 4) how this event is significant to you.
All of these should be in material form - on paper.
posted by ryan griffis at 1:58 PM Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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