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Category Archives: Media Examples for the Classroom
Projection and Modulation: Media Art and Forms of Criticality
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2) Holly Willis University of Southern California The “pedagogical turn” in contemporary art has received significant attention in the context of participatory art practices – thanks to the … Continue reading
‘Humanimal’ University: Teaching To Awaken Consciousness of Human and Animal Suffering Amidst Politics of Big Business
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3(2) Ellen Gorsevski Bowling Green State University “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – [attributed to] … Continue reading
Teaching Irresponsibly and Uncomfortably: The Role of Theory in the Neoliberal University
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol 3 (2) Hunter Hargraves California State University, Fullerton Over the last year, many online (and offline) spaces have taken up the question of trigger warnings – statements that prevent … Continue reading
Critical Pedagogies & Film Education in Neoliberal Times: Notes for Educators who Haven’t Given Up
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2) Matteo Stocchetti Åbo Academy, Helsinki University, Arcada University Introduction Cinema is an influential form of expression with both manipulative and critical potentials. Neoliberalism needs cinema for its … Continue reading
“Talking About Whiteness”: Using Digital Pedagogy to Interrogate Racial Privilege
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2) Shelleen Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee In this essay, I argue that digital media production can help facilitate critical dialogues about racial privilege that move beyond … Continue reading
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Land of Inopportunity: The Hunger Games’ Illustration of Work, Food, Class, Gender and Race Inequality in the United States
A Media Literacy Assignment by Dr. Chrys Egan, Salisbury University Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games franchise uses a dystopian future “Panem,” a thinly veiled United States, to offer a thought-provoking social commentary on the growing economic disparities among its people. … Continue reading
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Local Truths, Tactical Pedagogies: Documentary, Ethics, and Service Learning
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014 Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University This essay offers what was essentially a tactical response to both the devaluation of the liberal arts and the decline in funding for higher education. Specifically, … Continue reading
Advertisers’ image of housewives’ leisure time: 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company ad campaign in The Saturday Evening Post
In his chapter “Advertising as Social Tableaux”, Roland Marchand discusses a 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company campaign in The Saturday Evening Post. Marchand uses the ads to illustrate advertisers’ presumptions about what housewives wanted to use their leisure time for. … Continue reading
Foregrounding Context Through Paratexts
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013 Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin The naturalized primacy of the text has a firm grip on many students’ relation to media, but I have found using paratexts in … Continue reading
Wrestling with Where the “Text” Is
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 1(3) Fall 2013 Sam Ford MIT/ Western Kentucky University Discussing with Americana his scholarly work on the U.S.-style soap opera, Robert C. Allen (2004) said his interest began in a graduate seminar. Allen recalls … Continue reading