Media Literacy 2004
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Presenting Women: Broadening the Social Space |
A Study of how the women of the HBO series Sex and the City function as examples of resistance to predetermined gender definitions and established ideas of womanhood. |
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Do we
make you horny? |
Our video includes images of "queer women" in the mainstream, alternative images of how queer women should be represented in the mainstream and opinions from heterosexual males and homosexual females and professors about these images and whether they are helping the image of queer women becoming more progressive. |
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Zan: A Portrayal of Women in Iranian Cinema |
This is an eight minute documentary about the power of nation-state discourses through the medium of film to shape gender ideology in civil society. The piece explores both pre and post-revolutionary Iranian cinema in order to provide a fuller understanding of the depth and power media images can have to shape the gendered perception of Iranian women within and outside of the Iranian national borders. |
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Arts Bridge |
Over the last three years, the California state government has forced financial restructuring in education. The new budget spared no money for the ArtsBridge program, a University of California synergy in which undergraduate and graduate scholars take their knowledge of arts into area public schools and supplement students learning through a synthesis of art and core curricular subject matter. UCLA Theatre Film and Television strives to keep the program alive through private funding and diligent individuals. Our project uses the contemporary hegemony of Internet advertising and digital media to inform local teachers of the kinds of projects ArtsBridge has to offer while publishing the need for financial support to potential donors. Hopefully, the institution of this website contributes to the prosperity of ArtsBridge at UCLA’s TFT and can serve to foster similar programs and collegiate scholarships throughout the country.
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Illuminations Website |
The Illuminations Web page is an effort to politicize and disseminate the thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt school and to point to new trajectories that have taken place in this tradition. The Illuminations web page has retained all of the valuable resources of the former Illuminations web site while also enhancing the original intent of the Illuminations web site by providing new information and resources on the so called Third Generation of the Critical Theory tradition. This new mapping of Critical Theory highlights its advances in fields such as Feminist Theory, Critical Theory of Race, Critical Prison Studies, Postcolonial studies, and education. Moreover, the illuminations web site offers a multimedia archive that will have important and interesting discussions and interviews with critical theorists and educational theorists such as Herbert Marcuse, Ivan Illich, and Paulo Freire. Students and researchers will be able to access essays and multimedia archives from a site that situates Critical Theory in a historical framework that allows visitors to view a genealogy of the thought of Critical Theory. Illuminations will thus serve as an indispensable resource for researchers and students who are working in the field of social theory. |