M 08-Feb Spiegelman:
Maus I (“My Father Bleeds History” )
Discuss: Narrative & Image
» reading tip: goal is not to “race through” this “quick read” — rather, examine more attentively, like when viewing the New Media sites in prior weeks.
W 10-Feb Maus I
Extract Lessons: Time/Frames & Design
R 11-Feb Maus II (“And Here My Troubles Began”)
Exercise (in class): “Micro Scenes” (p.92)
F 12-Feb Maus II
Online Discussion: “Relay” lessons
(for Inventory & Project praxis)
— Due (Fri PM): Inventory updated through week 5
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» Note: Group Presentations Page (for weekend preparation)
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M 25-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”
Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse”
W 27-Jan Shelley Jackson: my body—a Wunderkammer(1997) and The Doll Games (2001)
→ Instructions for “Inventory” page here.
R 28-Jan Screening:Sink or Swim (Dir. Friedrich, 1990) & Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 1996)
F 29-Jan Discuss: Mediating Family-Memory-Home Online Discussion (see below)
Due: “Inventory” Page created and updated (notes through week 3 “in progress”)
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