Dr. Dan Hassler-Forest’s series on films that shed light on the election of Donald Trump in the U.S., including historical, political, socioeconomic, and theoretical perspectives. “I started seeking out films…
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Stuart Hall lays out the meanings and function of representation (first sections are especially useful to intro undergraduates). Available here: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~noenoe/hall1.pdf Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: Sage…
Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk discusses ” how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we…
Available here: http://thowe.pbworks.com/f/dyer.on.sterotypes.pdf Richard Dyer’s brief breakdown of the formation and function of stereotypes in media and in culture. “The Role of Stereotypes” by Richard Dyer in Paul Marris and Sue…
Stuart Hall’s seminal essay on the process of producing, disseminating, and interpreting texts. Available here: https://we.riseup.net/assets/102142/appadurai.pdf#page=202 From Stuart Hall, “Encoding/decoding.” In Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Love, and Paul Willis (eds.),…
Paul Longmore’s foundational text describing the history and function of stereotypes of people with disabilities in popular culture. Available here: http://courses.washington.edu/intro2ds/Readings/32_Longmore-screening.pdf
Laura Mulvey’s foundational essay on the construction of the male gaze in classical Hollywood cinema. Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Film Theory and Criticism : Introductory Readings. Eds….
hooks’ influential essay on a critical, oppositional gaze employed by black female spectators when viewing oppressive images and narratives of themselves. hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Routledge: New YOrk,…
Audre Lorde’s seminal presentation on racism and homophobia within feminist thought, and an early call for greater intersectional approaches to effecting change. Originally published: Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will…
Article and downloadable PDF here: https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack Peggy McIntosh’s seminal essay on the notion of white privilege, along with guidance for discussing privilege in classrooms or in other presentations. “White Privilege: Unpacking…
