Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

Here is the first section of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Click on the video so that it opens up in YouTube and you will find the other 5 parts (for a total of 6). Enjoy.

New Media: Convergence Culture & Collective Intelligence

Jenkins, "Worship at the Altar of Convergence"

Jenkins, "Spoiling Survivor"

from Convergence Culture

Manovich, "Principles of New Media"

Marshall, "Forms of Interactivity: The Disappearance of the Audience"

Jenkins, "Interactive Audiences? The Collective Intelligence of Media Fans"

Lessig, "Building Blocks: Commons and Layers" + "Commons on the Wires"

from The Future of Ideas

Himanen, "From Netiquette to Nethic"

from The Hacker Ethic

Acculturation I: La Haine

Yun Kim, "Adapting to a New Culture"

"Co-Cultures & Multi-Culturalism"

from Samovar et al., Intercultural Communication: A Reader; 12th Edition

Habermas, "Leadership and Leitkultur"

Bauman, "From Pilgrim to Tourist --or a Short History of Identity"

Hall, "Who Needs Identity?"

For our discussion of Kassowitz's La Haine/Hate:

Siciliano, "La Haine: Framing the 'Urban Outcasts'"

Brooks, "Gangsta, in French" from The New York Times Op-Ed Page

Rosen, "David Brooks: Playa Hater" from Slate.com, a response to Brooks

Below you can also find Etienne Balibar's now classic article on the 2005 banlieue revolts:

Etienne Balibar, "Uprisings in the Banlieues"

Uprisings in the Banlieues - Balibar

The Halloween Special

The Misfits - Halloween
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
The Sonics - The Witch
Suicide - Ghost Rider

X - Hungry Wolf
Iggy & The Stooges - Search and Destroy
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You

Zomby - Helter Skelter

Gravediggaz - 2 More Cups of Blood

Misfits Two-Times:
The Misfits - Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight (Live)

Horror Story:
Dead Boys - Ain't It Fun

Extra Scary Bedtime Story:
Thomas Brinkmann - Paris/Texas

The Social Construction of Race, Part Deux

This is the bulk of readings for the 'discourses of race' section of the course as we wade through it this week and next. Please have these articles read in the order posted. Pay particular attention to Zook's article on the Fox Network as it invests that political economic perspective that is so well dramatized in Bamboozled as well as the Means-Coleman article on 'black sitcoms' which is a good example of textual analysis.

Kristal Brent Zook, "The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television"
Robin R. Means-Coleman, "Black Sitcom Portrayals"
Donald Bogle, "Workplace Dramas, Ensemble Casts 1990s Style"
Chyng Fen Sun, "Ling Woo in Historical Context: The New Face of Asian American Stereotypes on Television"

The Social Construction of Race I

This a short introductory article on race and the media. As we conclude screening Bamboozled and discuss the film, Ash Corea's "Racism and the American Way of Media" is a good summary of the issues raised in the film and those that you will be reading about in greater detail with the next group of articles. As a bonus, a classic article by Stuart Hall.

Ash Corea, "Racism and the American Way of Media" from Questioning the Media
Stuart Hall, "What is This 'Black' in Black Popular Culture" from Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies




Clip from a 1949 film, Hollywood Varieties, where actors Glenn Vernon and Edward Ryan apply blackface make-up while on stage and reminisce about 'the good ol' days' --as they say-- of ministrelsy.

European Art Cinema

Ingmar Bergman's Persona (Sweden, 1966)

Chapter from David Bordwell's Poetics of Cinema on the "art film" here.

InterCultComm + New Media Study Guides

Busy?

Here is the Intercultural Communication Study Guide

The New Media Study Guide is here.

Language and Cultural Values

Samovar, "Language and Culture: The Essential Partnership"

Samovar, "Nonverbal Communication"

Samovar, "Venturing Into A New Culture"

from Samovar et al, Communication Between Cultures, 7th Ed (Wadsworth, 2009): Chapters 6,7 & 11

Gannon, "Understanding Cultural Metaphors"

from Understanding Global Cultures, 4th Ed. (Sage, 2010): Chapter 1

Study Guides: Race & Gender + Intro to Cinema

After the wise and profound words of Father Guido here's the much agonized for Study Guides:

Race and Gender
Intro to Cinema

Cinematic Specificity

Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Greatest Bicycle Thief Homage Produced by Hollywood

Bazin's collection of articles on neo-realism from What Is Cinema?; Vol. II

(Please read only the articles on De Sica and The Bicycle Thief)
Below you will also find, embedded, Bazin's 'The Virtues and Limitations of Montage' from What is Cinema?; Vol I --click on the Google Books logo at the bottom of the frame and a new tab will open with a more comfortable page size for reading.

Vsevolod Pudovkin, "On Editing" from Film Technique
Sergei Eisenstein, "The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram" + "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" from Film Form

The 'Odessa Steps' sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925)

referred to in the "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" article above.

Emancipatory Uses of the Media

Here are the new readings: Please find below Hans Magnus Enzensberger's "Constituents of a Theory of the Media" together with an article over viewing 'radical media' in Italy and the use of new communication technologies by political movements during the late '60s and '70s. This last article should accompany your viewing of Marco Tullio Giordana's I Cento Passi and provide you with context (both for the film itself and the historical period in which Enzensberger wrote the 'Constituents' article). The Hesmondalgh is an article attempting to define and focus the feature of 'alternative' and 'radical' media.

Something to think about in relation to the film is how Peppino Impastato's attempts at carving out a space for communication and direct political action (a public sphere within the confines of a small community dominated by organized crime) is dramatized in the film --from traditional political rallies to 'free radio', after navigating dadaist street theater, pamphleteering, film screenings and be-ins. Think specifically of the characteristics of RadioAut --programming, control, voice, 'mission', etc. Does the 'network' finally deliver on those expectations?

Enzensberger - Constituents of a Theory of the Media
Downing - Radical Media in Italy

Hesmondalgh - Alternative Media, Alternative Texts?

Extra Readings on Old vs. New Media Conceptions:
Michael Crichton - Mediasaurus (1993)

Jack Schaefer - Reflections on Mediasaurus

New Media: The Internet As Technology

Jeremy G. Butler, "The Internet and the World Wide Web"
P. David Marshall, "The Internet: The Multi-Media Accessible Universe and the User"
Bolter & Grusin, "The World Wide Web" (from Remediation)

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Psychoanalytic Feminist Film Theory

"Woman as image, man as bearer of the look"

Otto Preminger's Laura (1944)

Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
You can also find it in html format here.

New Media: Gaming

Pac-Man Skull

These are two articles on videogames and their history. Use them in conjunction with the screening of Game On: The Unauthorized History of Video Games screened in class.

Bolter & Grusin, "Computer Games" (from Remediation)
P. David Marshall, "Playing Game Cultures: Electronic Games"

Super Mario 25th Anniversary