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English 172: Introduction to Visual Culture Spring 2008 Jefferson Hendricks English Department Centenary College of Louisiana |
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Texts and Syllabus Policies and Requirements Writing Resources for Students Web Resources for Visual Culture |
Texts
- Graham Clarke, The Photograph. Oxford UP, 1997.
- Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford UP, 2001. (VC)
- Amy Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics. Routledge, 2007.
Syllabus
(This schedule is subject to change; check back
before every class for updates)
Week One: Jan. 15/17
Tu Jan 15: Introduction
to Course
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, "Introduction" and Chapter I: "Practices of Looking: Images, Power, and Politics"
- Images to study:
- "The Depths of the Sea" -- Edward Burne-Jones
- "Escape" -- Calvin Klein
- "La Gioconda" (The Mona Lisa) -- Leonardo da Vinci
- Key Words:
- art
- culture
- representation
- meaning
- ideology
- visual culture
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Calvin Klein
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Background Reading:
- paintings of Edward Burne-Jones -- History of Art
- paintings of Edward Burne-Jones -- Artcyclopedia
- unofficial Calvin Klein ads archive -- David Toccafondi, U. of Pennsylvania
- Leonardo da Vinci -- Artcyclopedia
- A Closer Look at the Mona Lisa -- The Louvre, Paris
Th Jan 17:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, Chapter 2: "Viewers Make Meaning"
- Reading Images -- Teun Velders
- Introduction to Seeing -- Richard Gregory
- Key words:
- aesthetics
- appropriation
- bricolage
- form
- semiotics
- sign
- structure
- symbol
- Johannes Vermeer -- Wikipedia
- Edouard Manet -- Wikipedia
- Herb Ritts -- Wikipedia
- Images to Study:
- "Girl with a Pearl Earring" -- Jan Vermeer
- Essential Vermeer Website -- Jonathan Janson
- The Girl With a Pearl Earring: An In-Depth Study -- Jonathan Janson
- "Olympia" -- Edouard Manet
- Images -- Herb Ritts
- photos by Herb Ritts @ The MFA, Boston
- Herb Ritts Photography -- Kasia Dybowska, Trinity College, CN
Week Two: Jan. 22/24
Tu Jan 22:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, Chapter 3: "Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge"
- Notes on "The Gaze" -- Daniel Chandler
- Images to Study:
- Keywords/People:
- gaze
- gaze -- Wikipedia
- elements of design/elements of art
- principles of design/principles of art
- Sally Mann
- Laura Mulvey
- Michel Foucault
- Background Reading:
- Sally Mann page @ PBS Art: 21 (includes images and interview)
- "Dial "P" for Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990s" -- Lucy Soutter, Afterimage
- "Politicizing
Puberty: The Zoning of Child Sexuality in Art, Advertising, and
the American Household" -- a
forum on children and sexuality
-- Nerve.com (and Sally
Mann's response)
- "Uncanny Resemblances: Sally Mann's Immediate Family" -- Jane Fletcher
- "Sally
Mann" (review of Mother Land) -- David Levi
Strauss, Art Forum
- review of Anne Higonnet's book Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood -- Calvin Bedient, Art in America
- "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" -- Laura Mulvey
- notes on Laura Mulvey's theory of the "the gaze"
Th Jan 24:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, Chapter 4: "Reproduction and Visual Technologies"
- Visual Perception -- Daniel Chandler
- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" -- Walter Benjamin
- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" -- Wikipedia
- Keywords/Key people: from Artlex and Wikipedia
- Images to Study:
- (review images previously listed)
- Background Reading:
- "Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture" -- special issue on Benjamin @ Transformations
Tu Jan 29:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, Chapter 5: "The Mass Media and the Public Sphere"
- Keywords/Key People:
- mass media
- modernism
- post-colonialism
- subcultures
- propaganda
- television flow
- Frankfurt School
- Marshall McLuhan
- Images to Study:
- "Jeans" (Bijou Phillips, Kate Moss) -- Calvin Klein
- "Be" (Vince Gallo) -- Calvin Klein
- "Jeans" (Bruce Weber) -- Calvin Klein
- Background Reading:
- bio and interview with Calvin Klein -- (1984)
- Gender Ads.com -- Scott Lukas
- Sex in Advertising -- Tom Reichert, U. of Georgia
- Texas Advertising links -- U. of Texas, Austin: Department of Advertising
- "Toward a Critical Theory of Advertising" -- John Harms and Douglas Kellner, Illuminations
- "Advertising and the Voice of Authority - Men Have it, Women Don't" -- Rebecca Zarchikoff
Th Jan 31:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, Chapter 6: "Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire"
- "on Publicity and Consumer Culture" -- from John Berger's Ways of Seeing
- Keywords/Key People:
- Images to Study:
- music videos from Madonna's Immaculate Collection (in class)
- 1992 photos of Madonna from Vanity Fair and Vogue -- photography by Steven Meisel @ Retro Crush
- Background Readings:
- "Madonna's Revenge" -- Annalee Newitz
- Beautiful Madonna -- an encyclopedic fan site filled with images, lyrics, career info
- illustrations for John Berger's Ways of Seeing
Week Four: Feb 5/7
Tu Feb 5: Mardi Gras Break
Th Feb 7:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, Chapter 7: "Postmodernism and Popular Culture"
- interview with Sherrie Levine -- Journal of Contemporary Art
- Michael Ray Charles images and info @ PBS Art:21
- Michael Ray Charles: Paintings -- Cheryl Brutvan, Albright-Knox Gallery
- Keywords/Key People:
- postmodernism
- postmodernism -- Wikipedia
- popular culture
- conceptual art
- found art (the readymade)
- assemblage
- appropriation -- Wikipedia
- Dada
- Surrealism
- Marcel Duchamp
- Sherrie Levine
- Michael Ray Charles
- Images to Study:
- music videos from Madonna's Immaculate Collection (in class)
- Marcel Duchamp, "Fountain"
- "Fountain" by Duchamp
- Sherrie Levine, "Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp: A.P.)"
- "After Alexander Rodchenko #1-12" -- Sherrie Levine @ The Guggenheim
- Sherrie Levine, "Newborn"
- Michael Ray
Charles images @ Artnet.com
- Michael Ray Charles images and info @ PBS Art:21
- "The Three Graces" -- Michael Ray Charles
- Background Readings:
- Unmaking the Museum: Marcel Duchamp's Readymades in Context -- Kristina Seekamp, Binghampton U., State U. of New York
- Sherrie
Levine -- Artnotart.com
- AfterSherrieLevine.com
- Innocent or Guilty? Deciding thte Fate of Sherrie Levine -- Artjunction.org
- African-American History Through the Arts: Michael Ray Charles
- "Painting Race" -- Rebecca S. Cohen, The Austin Chronicle
- "The Art of Darkness" -- Shaila Dewan, Houston Press
- Michael Ray Charles @ Albright-Knox Gallery
- American Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis -- American Studies Program, Washington State U.
Tu Feb 12:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking, Chapter 8: "Scientific Looking, Looking at Science" and Chapter 9: "The Global Flow of Visual Culture"
- Background Reading:
- Images from Science -- R.I.T.
- Sombrero Galaxy -- Hubble telescope
- Spiral Galzxy NGC 3370 -- Hubble telescope
- Fartherest known galaxy -- Hubble telescope
- DNA and DNA Protein Complexes
- Virus & Bacteriophage
- "Landscapes of Capital: Representing Time, Space, & Globalization in Corporate Advertising" -- Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, Noah Kersey
Th Feb 14: Exam on "Reading Visual Culture" unit
Section 1: short answer portion of the exam taken from 1) the text, images, and glossary of Practices of Looking, 2) online keywords/key people sections, 3) the in-class lectures and discussions
Monday, February 18: Section 2 -- Turn in take-home portion of exam on Practices of Looking to Ms. Palmer, Jackson Hall 304, by 2:00 pm
Tu Feb 19: Begin unit on "Photography as Visual Culture"
- Take Home Exam:
- Write a 350-500 word essay on each of the following three questions that will be posted below the week of the exam. Each essay should have a strong thesis that guides a clear argument that's supported by evidence and examples from our readings and from images that we've studied (or that you've studied on your own). I'm interested in your thinking and your arguments, but if you summarize or quote from another's work to support your argument, be sure to give them credit. (100 points total; each essay is worth 33 points). Be sure to write the honor code and sign your name.
- These three essays are to be typed/word-processed and presented in MLA format.
- Essay # 1: What does it mean to be an "ideological subject" (and how does it affect your consumption of visual culture)?
- Essay # 2: In Madonna’s videos is she “in control” of the gaze or a victim of it?
- Essay # 3: How would you characterize Calvin Klein’s view of the relationship of art to commerce as demonstrated by his ads?
Tu Feb 19: Begin unit on "Photography as Visual Culture"
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 1: "What is a Photograph?" and Chapter 2: "How Do We Read a Photograph?"
- Key Words/People:
- photography
- performance art
- snapshot aesthetic
- vernacular photography
- environmental portrait
- fine art photography
- abjection
- Cindy Sherman
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- documentary photography
- candid photography
- street photography
- photojournalism
- Magnum photos
- rule of thirds
- golden ratio
- Images to Study:
- Cindy Sherman's photography -- Masters of Photography
- Cindy Sherman's photography -- Artcyclopedia.com
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Magnum Photos
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- National Gallery of Canada
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- AfterImage Gallery
- Henri-Cartier Bresson -- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
- Tete a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Smithsonian
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Artcyclopedia.com
- Background Reading:
- Analyzing a Photograph: A How-To Guide -- Julia Lesage, U. of Oregon
- Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs -- Nuovo Contemporary Art
- Reading Photographs -- Hans Durer, Soundscapes
- excerpts from criticism on Cindy Sherman -- Masters of Photography
- Cindy
Sherman page @ the Guggenheim
- bio-criticism
on Cindy Sherman -- Brain-Juice.com
- a Cindy Sherman page -- Amy Junod, Temple U.
- a Cindy Sherman page -- Profotos.com
- "Abject/Informe/Trauma -- Discourses on the Body in American Art of the Nineties (section 3 on Sherman) -- Jan-Ove Steihaug
- "The
Sherman Phenomena: The Image of Theory or a Foreclosure of
Dialectical Reasoning?" -- Nadine Lemmon, Part 2
- "Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman" (bio, essay, images) -- New York University
- interview with Cindy Sherman -- Betsy Berne, Tate magazine #5
- New York Times obituary for Cartier-Bresson
- "A Life in Pictures" [on Cartier-Bresson] -- The Guardian
- Cartier-Bresson
quotes on photography -- PhotographyQuotes.com
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PhotoSeminars.com
- "Cartier-Bresson's Decisive Moment" -- David Friend, The Digital Journalist
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
- list of basic photography topics -- Wikipedia
Th Feb 21:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 3: "Photography in the Nineteenth Century"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
- (William) Henry Fox Talbot
- Louis Daguere
- daguerreotype
- Roger Fenton
- Henry Peach Robinson
- Peter Henry Emerson
- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
- Mathew Brady
- Timothy O'Sullivan
- Carleton Watkins
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Pictorialism
- The Linked Ring
- Albumen Print
- Photogravure
- Images to Study:
- Henry Fox Talbot @ Masters of Photography
- Roger Fenton @ Masters of Photography
- Timothy O'Sullivan @ Masters of Photography
- Carleton Watkins @ Masters of Photography
- Eadweard Muybridge @ Masters of Photography
- In Praise of Pictorialism: Early Pictorialist Photography
- Background Reading:
- Albumen Photographs: History, Science, and Preservation
- Art of the Photogravure
- The First Photograph (by Niépce) -- Ransom Humanites Research Center, U. of Texas, Austin
- Pictorialism -- Robert Leggat, A History of Photography
- Pictorialism in America -- Lisa Hostetler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- International Pictorialism -- Lisa Hostetler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- photographic processes -- Victorian and Albert Museum
Week Seven: Feb 26/28
Tu Feb 26:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph,
Chapter 4: "Landscape in Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- William Henry Jackson
- Hudson River School
- the sublime
- Landscape Art
- Ansel Adams
- Group f/64
- straight photography
- zone system
- Robert Adams
- New Topographics
- nature photography
- Images to Study:
- Ansel Adams -- Masters of Photography
- another
series of Ansel Adams photos -- Michael
Potter, Temple U.
- Robert Adams -- Masters of Photography
- images of landscape in paintings and photography -- USC
- Background Reading:
- excerpts from criticism on Ansel Adams -- Masters of Photography
- Ansel
Adams quotes on photography -- Photoquotes.com
- a short bio of Ansel Adams -- Jennifer Jankauskas
- a
very fine page on Ansel Adams with images, links, and a timeline
- an Ansel Adams timeline -- Michael Potter, Temple U.
- an extensive series of links to Ansel Adams images on the web -- Orazio Centaro
- "Celebrating 100 Years of Ansel Adams" -- Stephen Fox
- "Intimate
Nature: Ansel Adams and the Close View" --
Center for Creative
Photography
- "High Ideals" (a dissenting view of Ansel Adams) -- Malcolm Clark
- excerpts from criticism on Robert Adams -- Masters of Photography
- Robert
Adams bio and images -- Artnet.com
- "Landscape, Writing, and Photography" -- Sarah Hill, University of Auckland
Th Feb 28:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph,
Chapter 5: "The City in Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Alfred Steiglitz
- Georgia O'Keefe
- Camera Work
- Photo-Secession movement
- Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later known as 291 Gallery)
- Berenice Abbott
- Eugène Atget
- Brassai
- Street photography
- Images to Study:
- Alfred Steiglitz @ Masters of Photography
- Berenice Abbott @ Masters of Photography
- Helen Leavitt @ Masters of Photography
- Eugène Atget @ Masters of Photography
- Brassai @ Masters of Photography
- images of city life in paintings and photography -- USC
- Background Reading:
- Alfred Stieglitz -- Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
- Alfred Stieglitz -- Robert Leggat, A History of Photography
- Alfred Stieglitz -- American Masters, PBS
- Alfred Stieglitz -- The Getty Museum
- Berenice Abbott -- Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
- Berenice Abbott, "Changing New York, 1935-1938" -- New York Public Library
- Berenice Abbott -- Artcyclopedia
- Eugene Atget -- Artcyclopedia
- Brassai -- Artcyclopedia
Tu Mar 4:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph,
Chapters 6: "The
Portrait in Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Nadar
- David Octavious Hill
- Robert Adamson
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- August Sander
- Bill Brandt
- Yousuf Karsh
- Richard Avedon
- Images to Study:
- Nadar
- Hill and Adamson
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- August Sander
- Bill Brandt
- Yousuf Karsh
- Richard Avedon, images from In the American West
- Richard Avedon official page
- Background Reading:
- "Something from Nothing: Reading Things into Portrait Photographs" -- William McEwen
- How to Read a Portrait -- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (pdf file)
- short analyses of famous portraits (including Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Still #53) -- "Portrait of the Week" series, The Guardian Unlimited
- Hill and Adamson Collection -- U. of Glascow
- images of the portrait in painting and photography -- USC
- images of self-portraits in painting and photography -- USC
Th Mar 6:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph,
Chapters 7: "The Body in
Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Images to Study:
- E. J. Bellocq
- Hans Bellmer
- Edward Weston
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
- Robert Mapplethorpe -- artnet.com
- Robert Mapplethorpe -- Orazio Centaro
- Background Reading:
- "Hans Bellmer in The Art Institute of Chicago: The Wandering Libido and the Hysterical Body" -- Sue Taylor, U. of Chicago
- excerpts from criticism on Mapplethorpe -- Masters of Photography
- Mapplethorpe
page @ the Guggenheim
- bio-criticism
of Robert Mapplethorpe -- Brain-Juice.com
- Robert Mapplethorpe -- Jennifer Jankauskas
- brief critique of a Mapplethorpe photograph of Patti Smith -- The Guardian
- images of the human figure in painting and photography -- USC
Week Nine: Mar 11/13
Tu Mar 11:
Th Mar 13:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 8: "Documentary Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Jacob Riis
- How the Other Half Lives (1890)
- Lewis Hine
- Walker Evans
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
- Dorothea Lange
- "Migrant Mother" (1936) -- (click on first image for enlarged version)
- Farm Security Administration (FSA)
- Images to Study:
- Background Reading:
- "(Lewis Hine) The History Place -- "Child Labor in America, 1908-1912"
- Walker Evans bio @ The Metropolitan Museum
- Walker
Evans: Photographer -- Hilton Kramer, artnet.com
- PBS
interview about Walker Evans's photography
- "Walker Evans Revolutionizes Documentary Photography" -- Landon Nordeman
- "The
Passion of Walker Evans" -- Daniel Mark Epstein, New Criterion
- "Story of a Photographic
Session: Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother'"
- American from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA - OWI, 1935-45
- America from
the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photograhs from the
FSA - OWI, 1935-45
- "Every Picture Tells a Story: Documentary Photography and the Great Depression"
- New Frontiers in American Documentary Film -- Nicole Huffman
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter
9:
"The Photograph as Fine Art"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Images to Study:
- Background Reading:
- "Imogen
Cunningham: Beginnings" -- Anita Ventura Mozley
- "Imogen Cunningham: The Modernist Years" -- Richard Lorenz
- Edward Weston bio -- PhotoSeminars.com
- Edward Weston bio -- from A World History of Photography
Week Ten: Mar 18/20
Spring Break
Tu Mar 25:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 10: "The Photograph Manipulated" and Chapter 11: " The Cabinet of Infinite Curiosities"
- Keywords/Key People:
- photomontage
- Hannach Höch
- John Heartfield
- Man Ray
- Barbara Kruger
- Loretta Lux
- photoshopping
- Paul Outerbridge
- Clarence John Laughlin
- Diane Arbus
- Joel Peter Witkin
- Surrealism in photography
- Images to Study:
- Photomontages of Hannach Höch
- John Heartfield's photomontages
- Man Ray @ Artcyclopedia
- Barbara Kruger @ Artcyclopedia
- Loretta Lux @ Yossi Millo Gallery
- Loretta Lux @ The Guggenheim
- Loretta Lux home page
- Paul Outerbridge @ Masters of Photography
- Clarence John Laughlin @ Masters of Photography
- Diane Arbus photography @ Fine Art Photography Masters
- "Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967"
- David Segal, "Double Exposure," Washington Post
- Joel Peter Witkin -- (click on pictures)
- Joel Peter Witkin
- Joel Peter Witkin @ Art Forum.org
- Background Reading:
- Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage
- John Heartfield -- Towson U.
- Political Photomontage in Europe -- Peter Marshall, About.com
- "Clarence, Clarence, Clarence" -- Donald Colin
- Clarence John Laughlin bio -- from Encyclopedia of Photography
- page on Clarence John Laughlin
- excerpts from criticism on Diane Arbus -- Masters of Photography
- Diane Arbus -- Daniel Oppenheimer, Jewish Virtual Library
- bio-criticism of Diane Arbus (with good notes on her most important monographs) -- Brain-Juice.com
- a Diane
Arbus page -- ArtandCulture.com
- Diane
Arbus quotes on photography -- Photoquotes.com
- "The
Photography of Diane Arbus" -- Sara Ironman, Temple U.
- "'We're All Born Naked - and All the Rest is Drag': On the Photography of Diane Arbus" -- John Osborne
- "Retinal Detachment" (on Diane Arbus's photography) -- Bernard Cooper
- Joel Peter Witkin -- Cintra Wilson, Salon.com
- review of Witkin's opening at the Fraenkel Gallery -- Christa Palmer
- Joel Peter Witkin at the Edelman Gallery
- Joel Peter Witkin -- Stefan Beyst
Th Mar 27: Review Chapters 10 and 11
Week Twelve: Apr 1/3
Tu Apr 1: Review for Photography unit exam
for Wednesday, April 9:
- Section 2: Turn in take-home portion of exam on The Photograh to Ms. Palmer, Jackson Hall 304, by 2:00 pm on Wednesday, April 9
- Take Home Exam:
- Write a 350-500 word essay on two (your choice) of the following topics (each essay should be about two pages typed, for a total of about 4 pages). Each essay should have a strong thesis that guides a clear argument that's supported by evidence and examples. I'm interested in your thinking and your arguments, but if you summarize or quote from another's work to support your argument, be sure to give them credit.
- Question #1: Compare and contrast Ansel Adams and
Robert Adams as landscape photographers.
- Question #2: Compare and contrast the work of Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe in terms of its treatment of the body and/or portraiture.
- Question #3: Compare and contrast the work of any two photographers we've studied this semester (other than the four mentioned in questions 1 and 2 above) in terms of ideas of the grotesque/transgressive/abject/surreal.
Th Apr 3: Exam on Photography unit
Section 1: in class on Thursday, April 3: 20 short answer items taken from 1) the text, images, and glossary of The Photograph, 2) online keywords/key people sections, 3) the in-class lectures and discussions
Week Thirteen: Apr 8/10
Tu Apr 8: Begin Unit on "Film as Visual Culture"
- Reading:
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 1: "Introduction to Film Studies"
- Classical Hollywood Cinema -- Wikipedia
- Keywords/Key People:
- Viewing in class:
- "Like a Prayer" (Music Video: Dir. Mary Lambert; Starring Madonna)
- Background Reading:
- Taking Notes on Classroom Screenings -- Marianna Martin, Bryn Mawr College
- Writing About Film -- Dartmouth College
- Film Analysis Guide -- Yale Film Studies
- Motion Picture terminology -- Wikipedia
- The Seventh Art : Glossary of Film Terms
- IFC Film School: Multimedia Glossary of Film Terms
for Wednesday, April 9:
- Section 2: Turn in take-home portion of exam on The Photograh to Ms. Palmer, Jackson Hall 304, by 2:00 pm on Wednesday, April 9
- Take Home Exam:
- Write a 350-500 word essay on two (your choice) of the following topics (each essay should be about two pages typed, for a total of about 4 pages). Each essay should have a strong thesis that guides a clear argument that's supported by evidence and examples. I'm interested in your thinking and your arguments, but if you summarize or quote from another's work to support your argument, be sure to give them credit.
- Question #1: Compare and contrast Ansel Adams and
Robert Adams as landscape photographers.
- Question #2: Compare and contrast the work of Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe in terms of its treatment of the body and/or portraiture.
- Question #3: Compare and contrast the work of any two photographers we've studied this semester (other than the four mentioned in questions 1 and 2 above) in terms of ideas of the grotesque/transgressive/abject/surreal.
Th Apr 10:
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 2: "The Language of Film"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Charlie Chaplin -- Wikipedia
- The Tramp (aka "The Little Tramp)
- shot -- Wikipedia
- scene -- Wikipedia
- sequence -- Wikipedia
- film editing -- Wikipedia