Description
Post your pop culture text here. This is the text you will analyze for paper 1. It can be anything you see in pop culture, a music video or song, a film clip, a scene from a TV show, an online forum, an advertisement. It should be short, something you can analyze in a 2-page paper, so if you use a TV show or film or book, select a SPECIFIC SCENE. Post your text here and write a paragraph in response to the two prompts below: 1. Describe specific details from the text you have selected. Focus on something small that you can write about in one paragraph – a particular scene from a movie trailer or TV show, the details you see in an advertisement, a sampling of lyrics and a scene from a music video. Focus on the “signs” or meaningful symbols (such as flags, differently raced and gendered bodies, signifiers of class like gold, rings, fancy cars, clothes, settings like the beach, a club, house or nature): all of these signs convey meaning. Here you spend a paragraph simply describing these signs at work in the text. 2. Analyze the text: how are race, class, and/or gender represented in your text? Focus on specific signs from your first paragraph to provide evidence for your claims. You will receive 80% credit for selecting a strong text and offering some insightful arguments for why you chose it and how you intend to analyze it. Post TWO substantive replies to your peers for 20%. A ‘substantive’ reply cites evidence from the text and/or a concept from class readings.
