CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE AND CRITICAL MEDIA LITERACY
- Doug Kellner, "Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture," G. Dines & J.M. Humez, eds. Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader (London: Sage Publications; 2nd edition, 2002), 9-20.

Screening: Cultural Criticism and Transformation, featuring and directed by bell hooks. (Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 1997), 66 min.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH STEREOTYPES?
- Stuart Hall, "The Whites of their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media," Gender, Race and Class in Media, 89-93.
- Jane Collings, "The Hollywood Waitress: A Hard-Boiled Egg and the Salt of the Earth," The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class, ed. D.E. James and R. Berg (Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota, 1996), 265-283.

Screening: Marlon Riggs, Black Is, Black Ain't, USA, 1995 (88 min.)

INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS
- Jonathan Bignell, "Signs and Myths," Media Semiotics: An Introduction (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 5- 27.

Screening: Picturing Oriental Girls, dir. Va, USA, 1992 (12 min.)

THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS

READING ADVERTISEMENTS
- Jonathan Bignell, "Advertisements," Media Semiotics: An Introduction, 28-54.

Screening: Jean Kilbourne, Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women. USA, 2000 (34 min.)
Culture Jamming, Prod. Halle Lasn, 1993 (15 min .)

CONSUMER CAPITALISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DESIRE
- Sut Jhally, "Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture," Gender, Race and Class in Media, 249-257.
- Gloria Steinem, "Sex, Lies and Advertising," Gender, Race and Class in Media, 223-229.
- Rosalind Coward, "The Look," Female Desire (London: Granada Publ. Ltd., 1984), 75-82.

Screening: Harold Boihem, The Ad and the Ego, USA 1996 (57 min.)

FALL ESSAYS DUE TODAY

CONSUMER CAPITALISM, RACE AND CLASS
- Kathy Peiss, "Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930," Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, ed. V.L. Ruiz & E.C. DuBois (London: Routledge, 1994), 372-394.
- Fabienne Darling-Wolf, "Gender, Beauty and Western Influence: Negotiated Femininity in Japanese Women's Magazines," The Gender Challenge to Media, ed. E.L. Toth & L. Aldoory (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2001), 277-318.

Screening: Sally's Beauty Spot, dir. Helen Lee, Canada, 1990 (14 min.); Western Eyes, dir. Ann Shin, Canada, 2000 (40 min.)

Recommended Viewing: The World of Suzie Wong

CODES AND CONVENTIONS: FASHION
- Rosalind Coward, "Being Fashionable," Female Desire (London: Granada Publ. Ltd., 1984), 27-36.
- Kaja Silverman, "Fragments of a Fashionable Discourse," Studies in Entertainment, ed. T. Modleski (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), 139-152.

Recommended reading: Stella Bruzzi, "Clothes, Power and the Modern Femme Fatale," Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies (London: Routledge, 1997), 120-144.

Recommended viewing: The Last Seduction, Disclosure, Single White Female

CLOTHING AND IDENTITY
- Stella Bruzzi, "The Screen's Fashioning of Blackness," Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies (London: Routledge, 1997), 120-144.

Screening: Shaft, Waiting to Exhale (Excerpts)

CODES AND CONVENTIONS: HAIR
- Ronald Hall, "Hair: the Straight and Nappy of it All," The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans (New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992), 81-93.
- Dick Hebdige, "Bleached roots: Punk and White Ethnicity," Subculture: The Meaning of Style (London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1979), 62-70.

Screening: Black, Bold and Beautiful: Black Women's Hair, dir. Nadine Valcin, 1999 (Women Make Movies, 40 min.)

KID CULTURE, BARBIE AND 'GIRL POWER'
- Ann Ducille, "Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol.6 no. 1 (1994), 46-68.
- Mary F. Rogers, "Hetero Barbie?" Gender, Race and Class in Media, 94-110.
- Gayle Wald, "Just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Youth," Signs vol.23 no.3 (1998), 585-610.

Screening: Barbie Liberation Organization Newsreels, dir. Igor Vamos (BLO, 1994), 30 min.

Recommended Reading: Erica Rand, Barbie's Queer Accessories, (Durham : Duke University Press, 1995). HQ 23 .R36 1995 NEWC

DISNEY AND CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
- Henry Giroux, "Disney and the Politics of Public Culture," The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (New York: Rowand & Littlefield Pub., 1999), 18-61.
- Kathy Maio, "Disney's Dolls," New Internationalist, 12-14.
- Christopher Anderson, "Disneyland," Television: The Critical View, ed. Horace Newcomb (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 70-86.

Screening: Disney films - Excerpts

ANALYSING TELEVISION FICTION
- Jonathan Bignell, "Television Fictions," Media Semiotics: An Introduction, 155-178.
- Susan J. Hubert, "What's Wrong With This Picture? The Politics of Ellen's Coming Out Party," Gender, Race and Class in Media, 608-612.

Screening: Off the Straight and Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Television (1998), Exec. Prod. Sut Jhally, 60 min.

TELEVISION & NARRATIVE FORM
- Mary Ann Doane, "Information, Crisis, Catastrophe," Logics of Television, 222-239.
- Jane Feuer, "Narrative Form in American Network Television," High Theory/Low Culture: Analysing Popular Television and Film, ed. Colin MacCabe (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 101-114.

Screening: Anne Pick, Out of Sync: Racial Bias and the Media, Canada, 1994 (57 min.)

GENDERED TELEVISION: SOAP OPERA
- John Fiske, "Gendered Television: Femininity," Gender, Race and Class in Media, 469-475.
- John Docker, "Melodrama, Farce, Soap Opera," Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994), 245-259.
- Minu Lee & Chong Heup Cho, "Women Watching Together: An Ethnographic Study of Korean Soap Opera Fans in the United States," Gender, Race and Class in Media, 482-487.
- Jane Feuer, "Melodrama, Serial Form, and Television Today," Television: The Critical View, 551-562.

Screening: Current Soap Opera Episode

TALK SHOWS AND SELF HELP
- Rosalind Coward, "What is This Thing Between Us?" and "'Have you Tried Talking About It?'" Female Desire (London: Paladin Books, 1984), 125-132 & 133-142.
- Mimi White, "Tell Me More: Television as Therapy," Television: The Critical View, 282-302.

Screening: Talked to Death, dir. Eames Yates, USA, 1996 (58 min.)

RACE AND TELEVISION
- Herman Gray, "Television, Black Americans and the American Dream," Television: The Critical View, 176-187.
- Kristal Brent Zook, "The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television," Gender, Race and Class in Media, 586-597.

Screening: Marlon Riggs, Color Adjustment, Pt. 1, USA 1991 (87 min.) The Best of I love Lucy. (2001), 22-44 min.

MTV/MUCH: MADONNA
- John Pettigrew, "A Post-Modernist Moment: 1980s Commercial Culture and the Founding of MTV," Gender, Race and Class in Media [1st edition], 488-498.
- Jane D.Brown & Laurie Schulze, "The Effects of Race, Gender and Fandom on Audience Interpretations of Madonna's Music Videos," Gender, Race and Class in Media [1st edition], 508-517.
- Sheila Whitely, "Seduced by the Sign: An Analysis of the Textual Links Between Sound and Image in Pop Videos," Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, ed. S. Whiteley (London: Routledge, 1997), 259-276.

Screening: Immaculate Collection ( Excerpts); Selected Britney Spears videos

Recommended Reading: bell hooks, "Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?"Text-Reader [1st edition], 28-32.

RAP AND HIP-HOP
- Kristal Brent Zook, "Reconstructions of Nationalist Thought in Black Music and Culture," Gender, Race and Class in Media [1st edition], 518-523.
- Imani Perry, "It's My Thang and I'll Swing It the Way That I Feel! Sexuality and Black Women Rappers," Gender, Race and Class in Media [1st edition], 524-530.
- Tricia Rose, "'Fear of a Black Planet:' Rap Music and Black Cultural Politics in the 1990s," Gender, Race and Class in Media [1st edition], 531-540.
- James Ledbetter, "Imitation of Life," Gender, Race and Class in Media [1st edition], 540-544.

Screening: Isaac Julien, The Darker Side of Black, Great Britain, 1994 (59 min.)

READING CINEMA IMAGES
- Jonathan Bignell, "Cinema," Media Semiotics: an Introduction, 179-206.

Screening: Julie Dash, Illusions, USA, 1983 (326 min.)
Deborah Gee, Slaying the Dragon, USA, 1987 (60 min.)

POPULARITY AND CELEBRITY
- Gayle Wald, "Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order," Camera Obscura, vol. 42 (Sept. 1999), 51-69.
- Leda M. Cooks, Mark P. Orbe, Carol S. Bruess, "The Fairy Tale Theme in Popular Culture: A Semiotic Analysis of Pretty Woman," Women's Studies in Communication vol. 16 no. 2 (Fall 1993), 86-104.

Screening: Pretty Woman, Clueless, Crossroads (excerpts)

INTERACTIVE MEDIA
- Jonathan Bignell, "Interactive Media," Media Semiotics: An Introduction, 207-227.

Screening: Microsoft vs. the Justice Department: Playing Monopoly (1999), 18 min.