Assemblage Expression

Project 2: Reclaiming Entertainment and Community Discourse

Due: 27-Mar; 1000 words, 25 points

 » Note:  Poetics page required, 250-300 words of the 1000 total count.

 Challenge:

How to engage and redefine our relation to established narratives that have informed our thinking?

 Assignments from Internet Invention:
 
 
Part I — Entertainment & Childhood Databases

“Make a website documenting the details of a movie or TV narrative, some part of which you remember from your childhood”
 
• “record the part of the story that you remember” and then view again; “looking for the obtuse meaning of a story”
• “connect your family memories and the Entertainment narrative. The connection will most likely not literal, but figurative.”
  “The idea is to map one story onto the other. The entertainment narrative figures the atmosphere or mood” (127)

 
Part II — Community Database

“Add to your site the documentation of an exemplary story from your community, about a person or event that your community identifies with and tells about itself in its celebrations, festivals, naming practices…[and] memorials.”
 
• “notice how the community in which one was raised focalizes the story of its founding and existence. …find the point of view that expresses the values of the community” (191); plus, “locate the interpellation, what the community thinks for us, and prior to us, on our behalf. The wide image is a compass….we may use it to go in any direction.” (192)