week 7
Oct 5: script paragraph due: rough draft workshop; turn in hard copy Oct 7
Oct 7: ch 23 Ellen DeGeneres (Gurbani); final webtext topic ideas due in class
ch 28: Inventing the Cosmo Girl (Brooke): keywords:
class
single girl, working girl, cosmo girl
pink-collar (then vs now)
breadwinner
"mobile sexual agent"
agency, agent
Shumer: the myth of women as not sexual
sex as commodity exchange (media vs real life)
porn and advertising
the attractiveness-success association
covers:
image
creating an image (multiple selves)
Ellen:
media event (e.g. coming out)
media ritual (e.g. Ellen's dance) "reinstates convention"
(her daily dance = coming out daily ritually)
closet metaphor
comedy: gender role switch
fewer viewers after coming out; more now
televisibility/visibility
camp (lesbian camp)
shtick
heteronormative
(vaudeville physical comedy) (Lucille Ball)
cultural acts of coming out: how do GLBTQ individuals come out? daily? ritually?
in the context of homphobia/lgbtq-friendliness (depends on climate)
Emory ranked #3 best school for LGBTQ students
spectrum of sexuality (continuum)
coming out as a process/journey/life
final project topics
scholarly webtext
1. communicate about secondary and primary sources to audience.
2. compose 8-10 nonlinear pages of text
3. conceived of in nonlinear fashion, a website, hyperessay, hyperlinked writing
4. shows sound visual design
5. incorporates visual elements beyond design (images, perhaps video, etc)
6.
Oct 5: script paragraph due: rough draft workshop; turn in hard copy Oct 7
Oct 7: ch 23 Ellen DeGeneres (Gurbani); final webtext topic ideas due in class
ch 28: Inventing the Cosmo Girl (Brooke): keywords:
class
single girl, working girl, cosmo girl
pink-collar (then vs now)
breadwinner
"mobile sexual agent"
agency, agent
Shumer: the myth of women as not sexual
sex as commodity exchange (media vs real life)
porn and advertising
the attractiveness-success association
covers:
image
creating an image (multiple selves)
Ellen:
media event (e.g. coming out)
media ritual (e.g. Ellen's dance) "reinstates convention"
(her daily dance = coming out daily ritually)
closet metaphor
comedy: gender role switch
fewer viewers after coming out; more now
televisibility/visibility
camp (lesbian camp)
shtick
heteronormative
(vaudeville physical comedy) (Lucille Ball)
cultural acts of coming out: how do GLBTQ individuals come out? daily? ritually?
in the context of homphobia/lgbtq-friendliness (depends on climate)
Emory ranked #3 best school for LGBTQ students
spectrum of sexuality (continuum)
coming out as a process/journey/life
final project topics
scholarly webtext
1. communicate about secondary and primary sources to audience.
2. compose 8-10 nonlinear pages of text
3. conceived of in nonlinear fashion, a website, hyperessay, hyperlinked writing
4. shows sound visual design
5. incorporates visual elements beyond design (images, perhaps video, etc)
6.