Introduction to Media Studies

Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
hooks, “Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance”

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Fiske, “Intertextuality” and “Pleasure and Play” (reader)
D’Acci, “Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey” (reader)

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Brummett, “Rhetorical Methods in Critical Studies” (reader)
Brummett, “Varieties of Rhetorical Criticism” (reader)
Kellner, “Beavis and Butt-head: No Future for Post-Modern Youth” (reader)

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (2004, Robert Greenwald, 77m)

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Bagdikian, “The Lords of the Global Village” (reader)
Steinem, “Sex, Lies, and Advertising” (reader)
RESPONSE 2 DUE

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