CLASS SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1 8/23: Introduction, Class Constitution,
Read: What is Animation
Screen: Meat Love, Backyardigans, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
WEEK 2 8/30: Race – Native American
Read: Disney and Native American Experience & Film as a Cultural practice (emailed to you)
Screen: Disney Shorts, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron
WEEK 3 9/6: Race – Asian
Read: Animating Race
Pence on Mulan
Aladdin & Orientalism
Screen: Aladdin King of Thieves, Mulan
WEEK 4 9/13: Race – Asian
Read: Disney and Public Culture
Animating the Unconscious
Screen: Much Apu Nothing, The Problem with Apu, Spirited Away
WEEK 5 9/20: Race – African American
Read: Blackness in the Early Days
Race
Screen: Fat Albert & Boondocks
WEEK 6 9/27: Race – African American
Read: Black Superheroes
Colorblind
Comic book masculinity
Screen: Various TV shows, Home
WEEK 7 10/4: Race: Latino/Latina // Work Day
** Everyone must blog on today’s readings and screenings**
Read: Saludos Amigos & 3 Caballeros
Disney and Latino Children
Screen: Turbo or Coco
WEEK 8 10/11: Gender – Femininity
Read: Disney Feminism
Disney & the Sexual Revolution
Teaching Presentations:
Tyra – Satire and Race
Laura – Gender Wall-E
Screen: Leap
WEEK 9 10/18: Gender – Good Girls, Mothers, Bad girls
Read: Might As Well be Dead
Freezing versus Wrecking
Motherhood
Teaching Presentation:
JT & Alex Good Girls
Screen:
WEEK 10 10/25:Read: Gender – Masculinity
Read: New Man
Masculinity in King of the Hill
Teaching Presentations:
Ronja – Futurama
Khara – Mouse to Mermaid & Beauty, Beast Diversity
Matt & Keimon – chapter from Heroes and Villians
Screen:
WEEK 11 11/1: Gender – Father, Bad Boys, Evil Villains
Read: Fatherhood Masculinity
Masculinity
Dashing Heroes
Teaching Presentations:
Dustin
Screen:
WEEK 12 11/8: Gender – Adolescents
Read: Akira Ramna
No Perfect Girl
Powerpuff Girls
Teaching Presentations:
Diksha – Persepolis
Michael – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/189199 and violence in animation
Aliyah & Jasmine
Screen:
WEEK 13 11/15: Sexuality
Read:
Teaching Presentations:
Deion
Kennedy & Kate – queer resistance & trouble with pronouns
Screen:
WEEK 14 11/22: Thanksgiving Break
WEEK 15 11/29: Sexuality
Read:
Ryan – Transgender
Screen:
WEEK 16 12/6: Final Presentations
Final Exam: DECEMBER 13, 2018 8:00 am to 10:00 am Final Presentations
Do NOT make final plans to go home until the final schedule has been announced.