*Introduction *Message
*Method
*Medium
*Understanding Texts
*Audience
*Purpose
*Context
*Reading and Writing About Texts
*Essays (annotated essay, Stephen Jay Gould, A Time of Gifts)
*Photographs (annotated photograph, Lauren Greenfield, Sara, 19)
*Advertisements (annotated advertisement, Remember When This Was Heavy Traffic?)
*How to Use Convergences
1. Staging Portraits
Introduction
*Visually Speaking: Audience
HOME MOVIES
Memoir: Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Silent Dancing"
Book Cover: Silent Dancing
Poem: Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Lessons of the Past"
*Visually Speaking: Metaphor
*OUR STUFF, OUR SELVES
*Essay: John D. Freyer, All My Life For Sale
*4 Objects: Jacket, Thesis, Fly-Fishing Patch, Bowling Shirt
*Screen Shot: www.ebay.com
REPRESENTATIONS
Essay: Dorothy Allison, What Did You Expect?
*Photo: Dorothy Allison, 1958
*Book Cover: Bastard Out of Carolina
*DVD Cover: Bastard Out of Carolina
CONFESSIONS
Résumé: Anne Sexton, "Résumé 1965"
Photo: Arthur Furst, Anne Sexton, Summer 1974
Poem: Anne Sexton, "Self in 1958"
*Photo: Two photographs
FAMILY PHOTOS
*Essay: Janet Malcolm, The Family of Mann
4 Photographs: Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette, *Blowing Bubbles,*Jesse Bites, and *Emmet, Jesse, and Virginia
Interview: Melissa Harris, Daughter, Model, Muse Jessie Mann on Being Photographed
*THE MONA LISA
*2 Essays: Joseph A. Harris, Seeking Mona Lisa; Lillian Feldman Schwartz, The Mona Lisa Identification
*8 Portraits
*Visually Speaking: Assignment
Writing, Researching, Collaborating
2. Telling Stories
Introduction
*Visually Speaking: Sequence
MEMOIR
Memoir: David Sedaris, "Ashes"
*Magazine Cover: Index Magazine, February 2001
3 Montages: Danny Lyon, Ernst, Four Generations, Raphe at Seventeen
WEBCAMS
4 Comic Strips: Garry Trudeau, Alex's Real-Time Web Site, She Has Fans in Finland, Time for Bed!, Now Turn Toward the Camera
Screen Shot: Jennifer Ringley, www.jennicam.com
*Essay: Sara Tucker, Introduction to Diller/Scofido Refresh
*Screen Shot: Diller/Scofidio, Refresh
*REALITY TV
*Essay: Lee Seigel, Reality in America
*4 Photographs: Mr. Personality Cheat Sheet, American Idol contestants, casting call for Fear Factor, Extreme Makeover before & after
*Memo: Anthony Jaffe, It's a Real, Real, Real, Real, Real World
*THE MOVIES
*Movie Poster: Z
*Essay: Louise Erdrich, Z: The Movie that Changed My Life
*Comic Book: X Men
*Poster: The Matrix
*Wallpaper: The Lord of the Rings
*DVD Case: The Wizard of Oz
*Still: The Passion of the Christ
*THE NEWSPAPER
*Essay: Wendy Lesser, "Weegee"
*4 Photographs: Weegee, Newsboy, Mulberry Street, Dancing, Car Crash
*Essay: Nora Ephron, The Boston Photographs
*2 Photographs: Stanley Forman, The Boston Photographs
*Photo: Bronston Jones, Missing
*VIDEOCAM
*Essay: Don DeLillo, Videotape
*Alternate Ending: From Don DeLillo, Underworld
*Photo: Jeff Wall, Man with a Rifle
*Film Stills: Sex, Lies, and Videotape, The Blair Witch Project, and American Beauty
*Visually Speaking: Assignment
*Writing, Researching, Collaborating
3. Shaping Spaces
Introduction
*Visually Speaking: Contrast
HOME
Essay: Nicole Lamy, Life in Motion
Photo-Journal: Nicole Lamy, Untitled
*5 Photographs: Bill Bamberger, From Stories of Home
*THE BASKETBALL COURT
*Essay: John Edgar Wideman, First Shot
*5 Photographs: Paul D'Amato, Jump Shot, 1994; Brad Richman, Silver Springs, Maryland -- August 1993; Portland, Maine -- October 8, 2000; Washington, D.C.-July 10, 1999; Dana Lixemberg, Tamika Catchings
*Ad: ESPN, Without Sports, Who Would We Follow?
*ROADSIDE DINING
*Essay: Nicholas Howe, Fast-Food America
*Ad: Automat, Horn & Hardart
*6 Photographs: Ray Kroc Standing Outside McDonalds, 1963; Lauren Greenfield, Penny Wolfe and daughter Jessica, Santa Monica Place; Hot Dog on a Stick employees Dominique King and Wendy Recinos at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza; Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza; Keum Ja Chung and Hyung Hee Im in the Koreatown Plaza International Food Court; David Butow, Traffic along U.S. Highway 412
TRANSIT SPACE
Essay: Pico Iyer, Nowhere Man
*2 Photographs: Sylvia Otte, Airport Lounges
*CD Cover: In What Language?
SACRED SPACES
*Photograph: oan Frederick, Rainy Mountain, Kiowa Holy Place, Oklahoma
*Essay: N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
*Poem: Stephen Dunn, The Sacred
2 Photographs: Jesse DeMartino, Jason and Mike at the Cabin Near Hunstville, Texas, 1966; Mitch Epstein, Cocoa Beach, Florida, 1983
CYBERSPACE
Billboard: Yahoo!
*2 Essays:Jonathon G. S. Koppell, No "There" There; Noah D. Kzatz, From "Sidewalks in Cyberspace"
*5 Screen Shots: Google Screen Shot; SimCity 4 (2 screen shots); The Sims (2 screen shots)
*Visually Speaking: Assignment
Writing, Researching, Collaborating
4. Making History
*Visually Speaking: Context
*COMPOSING FREEDOM
*2 Essays: Thomas Starr, The Real Declaration; James Munves, Going To Press
*5 Documents: Declaration (draft); Declaration (broadside); Declaration (calligraphy); Gettysburg Address (calligraphy); Gettysburg Address (powerpoint)
INDIAN GROUND
Poem: Sherman Alexie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Poster: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Essay: Verlyn Klinkenborg, Sand Creek
2 Photographs: Colonel John M. Chivington; Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs
Drawing: Troops storming the Sand Creek
Map: Sand Creek
CHICAGO'S TENEMENTS
4 Photographs: Wayne F. Miller, Rabbits for Sale, 1948; Two Girls Waiting Outside a Tavern; One-Room Kitchenette; *Three Teenagers
Poem: Gwendolyn Brooks, Kitchenette Building
Essay: Gordon Parks, Speaking for the Past
*AMERICAN COMIX
*Essay: Art Spiegelman, Forms Stretched to Their Limits
*4 Superheroes: Plastic Man, Superman, Green Lama, Wonder Woman
MEMORIAL
Proposal: Proposal and Sketches for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982
Essay: Maya Lin, Between Art and Architecture
Photograph: Aerial View of Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Vietnam Veterans Memorial
*Essay: Michael Arad and Peter Walker, Reflecting Absence
*Proposal: World Trade Center Memorial
Ad: Forgetting Would Be a Second Abandonment: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
*EXPOSING WAR
*Essay: Susan Sontag, Watching Suffering from a Distance
3 Photographs: *Alexander Gardner, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863; *Ron Haviv, Fejeljina, Bosnia, 1992; Ronald L. Haeberle, My Lai villagers before and after being shot by U.S. troops
Journal: Thomas R. Partsch, Journal, March 16-18, 1968
Transcript: William L. Calley, Court Martial Transcript
Ad: Physicians Against Land Mines
*Visually Speaking: Assignment
Writing, Researching, Collaborating
5. Dividing Lines
*Visually Speaking: Alignment
*Cartoon: Roz Chast, Deconstruction Lunch
*US AND THEM
*Poem: Maya Angelou, Human Family
*5 Photographs: Dennis McDonald, Burlington Country Times, Berkeley, New Jersey, 2003; Kurt Wilson, St. Ignatius, Montana, 2003; Danielle P. Richards, Teaneck, New Jersey, 2003; Lisa Rudy Hoke, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2003; Gary Fandel, West Des Moines, Iowa, 2003
*Essay: David Brooks, People Like Us
*Advertisement: CAIR, We're all Americans
TURF WAR: Gangs
Essay: Richard Roderiguez, Gangstas
4 Photographs: Joseph Rodriguez, Chivo; Members of Florencia 13 gang outside school; Mike Estrada holds a photo of his father who is in prison; Funeral of two-and-a-half-year-old Thomas Regalado III
*GENDER
*Photograph: Roger Ressmeyer, Crying Infants, 1984
*Essay: Penelope Scambly Schott, Report on the Difference Between Men and Women
*Short Story: Melanie Sumner, Marriage
*Photograph: Eric James, School Bus
*Essay: Jan Morris, Herstory
*Photograph: Boys are Stupid T-Shirt
ON THE MARGINS
Photograph: Jacob Riis, Homeless Boys, New York City, 1890
*Essay: Lars Eigner, On Dumpster Diving
4 Photographs: Mary Ellen Mark, The Damm Family in their Car, Los Angeles, California, 1987; Chrissy Damm and Adam Johnson, Liano, California, 1994;Margaret Morton, Mr. Lee's House, The Hill, 1991; Mr. Lee, Chinatown, 1992
Oral History: Mary Ellen Mark, Mr. Lee
*COLOR LINES
*Essay: Orlando Patterson, Race Over
*4 Photographs: Vin Diesel, 2003; Derek Jeter, 2003; Jessica Alba, 2003; Christina Aguilera, 2003
*ANIMAL RIGHTS
*2 Essays: Steven M. Wise, Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights; Vicki Hearne, What's Wrong with Animal Rights
*2 Advertisements: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, They Called Him Christmas; FBR, Animal Research Saves Animals
*Visually Speaking: Assignment
Writing, Researching, Collaborating
6. Packaging Culture
*Visually Speaking: Emphasis & Color
*HOW TO MAKE AN AD
*Directions: Adbusters, How to Create Your Own Print Ad
*Poster: Coors Light Twins
*Essay: Chris Ballard, How to Write a Catchy Beer Ad
Ad: Miss Clairol, Does She or Doesn't She?
Essay: James B. Twitchell, How to Advertise a Dangerous Product
*ADVERTISING MORALITY
Essay: Barbara Ehrenreich, Dirty Laundry: Benneton's "We on Death Row" Campaign
3 Photos: Oliverio Toscani, Edgar Ace Hope, Carlette Parker, Jeremy Sheets
Op-Ads: *Father, *The Enforcer, Have you Ever Seen A Real Indian?, Children Aren't Born Violent, The Most Offensive Boots Ever Made, You're Running Because You Want That Raise
*SELLING AMERICA
*2 Photos: Christopher Blizzard, Pizza Box, Nat Friedman, America: Open for Business
*Essay: Ian Frazier, All-Consuming Patriotism
5 Ads: I Want You for the US Army!, *Wake Up America, You'll be on the Greatest Team in the World, When was the last time you got Promoted?, Army of One
*THE MALL
*Comic: Peter Bagge, Malls
*4 Photos: Rome, 110, London 1851, Houston 1971, Bloomington, Minnesota
*Essay: David Guterson, Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured.: One week at the Mall of America
*Mixed Media: Barbara Krugman, I Shop Therfore I Am
*CELEBRITY
*Essay: Neal Gabler, Our Celebrities, Ourselves
2 Photos: Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Jeff Koons
*3 Paintings: Elizabeth Payton, Swan (Leonardo di Caprio), Kurt, 1996, David, Victoria and Brooklyn
Magazine: Time Magazine, Diana, Princess of Wales
*THE BODY
*Ad: Charles Atlas, How Joe's Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame
*Essay: Eric Tyrone McLeod, Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body
*Photo: The Drinking Man's Diet
*Ad: Calvin Klein, Fredrik Ljunberg
*Photo: Two women, one holding a mirror, one applying lipstick, close-up, Spilled pink nail polish
Visually Speaking: Assignment
Glossary
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