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Traversing the Scales of Archival Research

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Teaching with Primary Sources Vol 4(3) Martin L. Johnson Catholic University of America For most of its history, the cinema was researched and taught as a medium of grandiose scale. Histories of Hollywood contended with histories … Continue reading

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Film History Comes Alive: Primary Materials Research as Participatory Pedagogy

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Teaching with Primary Sources Vol 4(3) Emily Carman Chapman University Although my university is just thirty-seven miles south of Los Angeles—home to many impressive film and television archives and special collection libraries—my students often lack transportation … Continue reading

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Land of Inopportunity: The Hunger Games’ Illustration of Work, Food, Class, Gender and Race Inequality in the United States

A Media Literacy Assignment by Dr. Chrys Egan, Salisbury University Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games franchise uses a dystopian future “Panem,” a thinly veiled United States, to offer a thought-provoking social commentary on the growing economic disparities among its people. … Continue reading

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Images of the Disabled

Course Description and Objectives: Depictions of illness and physical disability reflect, often in reversal, our beliefs about merit, human worth, dignity, community, and the definition of a life well lived. The works examined in this course—ranging in genre from the … Continue reading

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Media examples for “Eating the Other”

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Brief analytical/critical paper on electronic media

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