Here's a link to a wine-tasting tomorrow, among the bones, muhahaha!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
V for Vendetta blog post: due March 9th
Here's your last blog writing assignment this quarter.
I'd like you to put down responses in two different registers to V for Vendetta.
First, I'd like you to react to thematic elements. In particular, what do you think about the way the novel presents resistance and revolution to change society? Does it make a convincing case? Convincing for some but not all of V's ideas and methods? Why or why not??
Second, I'd like you to select one or two passages where the graphic novel format seems really effective. Yes, we all like books with lots of pictures in them, but historically this is part of what has held back comics from being taken seriously. However, now people are thinking that there is some really significant opportunities through the form of text and pictures. Where did the pictures really make the story more engaging or make you slow down and pay attention to the images instead of just whipping through the text?
350-400 words.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Echoes of RUR
Here are a couple of videos that resonate with themes from RUR. Please post others on your own blogs or as comments--they seem to be everywhere. And, in class the novels/films I mentioned were Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Children of Men. You might also check out a movie called Moon directed by Duncan Jones.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Bill Nye, Science Guy, and a Virtual Reality reality check.
Follow this link about a lecture at USC where Bill Nye, Science Guy, passed out and the student audience sat there tweeting and facebooking about it while no one checked to see if he was okay...
Cairo and Online Social Networking
Last week we talked a little about Gary Shteyngart's SSTLS and the way online social networking has played a significant role in the recent revolutions in the Middle East. Here are a couple of pics.
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