Monthly Archives: January 2012

Embedded/Embedding Media Practices and Cultural Production

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How are political performances and news-making practices entwined in India, and how might the ‘subjectivity’ of the press affect its institutional authority?

[and then we could further the discussion by asking about other examples (celebrities/politics/news media/etc.) closer to home]

Clare Mildenberger

Rao, Ursula
2010 Embedded/Embedding Media Practices and Cultural Production. In
Theorizing Media and Practice, Brigit Brauchler and John Postil eds. Pp.
147-168. New York: and Oxford: Berghahm Books

The blog-post assignment

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The blog-post assignment  is due on Feb 10th.
More details.. soon.
For now, i’m sharing with you two graffiti photos from my last visit in Guatemala.

Nov 25th, 2011, Guatemala City

 

Rosa’s graffiti.

Nov 25th, 2011, Guatemala City.

The text reads:
Those who attack women, rape them and kill them, are not sick. They are criminals.

Nov 25th, 2011, Guatemala City

 

 

A morning  outing with grandma Rosa. 

Nov 25th, 2011, Guatemala City

 


 

Film Theory (Gordon Gray, 2010)

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How have theories such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, structuralism, and others been used by Western Film theorists to respond to an increasingly globalized consciousness?

Can the established “universals” of Western film theory be applied to non-Western films?

What issues might arise from cross cultural applications of such theories?

Can you draw examples of this from your own viewing experiences?

Gray, Gordon

      2010 Film Theory. In Cinema: A Visual Anthropology, Pp.35-73.

             Oxford,New York: Berg.