The purpose of this assignment was 1) to investigate further how literary articles work 2) develop further insight into the ways that people analyze one particular topic (in this case, "The Simpsons").
Crawford, Alison. “’Oh Yeah!’: Family Guy as Magical Realism?”
Henry, Matthew” 'Don't Ask Me, I'm Just a Girl': Feminism, Female Identity, and The Simpsons”
(and coming on Friday...)
Mittell, Jason. “Cartoon Realism: Genre Mixing and the Cultural Life of The Simpsons”
Henry, Matthew. “The Triumph of Popular Culture: Situation Comedy, Postmodernism and The Simpsons"
We developed a model for the way that these articles work in which
A = the primary text, or the main focus of the article
B = the context, meaning the relevant history or comparative text (i.e. other television shows) that the author uses to compare/contrast with the primary text
C = the particular view/theme/focus that the author takes (do they focus on gender roles? class? race/ representation? etc.).
For example:
We determined that in Jessica Neuhaus' article "Marge's Blue Hair: Defining Domesticity in the Simpsons" that we read as a class:
a = The Simpsons
b = traditional 1950's American sitcoms
c = domesticity
in Crawford's article "'Oh Yeah': Family Guy as Magical Realism,"
a= Family Guy
b = The Simpsons
c= representation
In Henry's article, "Don't Ask Me, I'm Just a Girl"
a = The Simpsons
b = Murphy Brown + the history of feminism
c= the evolving and ambiguous definition of feminism
In Henry's article, "Don't Ask Me, I'm Just a Girl"
a = The Simpsons
b = Murphy Brown + the history of feminism
c= the evolving and ambiguous definition of feminism
Please think about this model as we finish the Mittell and Henry articles on Friday.
Assignment: Please read the assignment sheet for our upcoming project: Short Analysis Paper. This assignment requires us to read a text together as a class. I invite you to post a specific text AS A REPLY TO THIS POST by Thursday evening. The more specific the better. I will appreciate links, if available.
I prefer to analysis a short story like "The Forest". Such as Bill Konigsberg's story "After". I only read a few of it in class. Although this kind of story is difficult to understand, but also interesting to read.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read and analyze the traditional text, like the fiction we read last time by Andrea Barrett. I have this short story "Theories of Rain" downloaded from Kean Library Online.
ReplyDeleteI’d like to analyze a text which is connected with animation. This is pretty interesting. Sticking on the theme of The Simpsons is not a bad idea. Here is a link about The Simpsons: http://library.kean.edu:2062/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ea23d7a1-3a52-4f34-b909-753d0605fc94%40sessionmgr112&vid=8&hid=115 Maybe is helpful.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read and analyze a text which is fun, like the articles we have read about the Simpsons. There is a article talks about South Park, a cartoon which is similar to the Simpsons. This article named Contentious Language: South Park and the Transformation of Meaning. It disputes over language and meaning are central themes in South Park. There is the link: http://library.kean.edu:2075/ehost/detail/detail?vid=8&sid=d28d54d2-80b5-4b7f-9dde-ea9b94c6fd8e%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4104&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWNvb2tpZSxpcCx1cmwsY3BpZCZjdXN0aWQ9a2VhbmluZiZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=73443812
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read weird story. Such as Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart".
ReplyDeleteI prefer to analyze articles like "The Forest." My suggestion is "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman Perkins. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/literatureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
ReplyDeleteI'd like to examine through the movie The Great Gatsby as the text since the book may take too long to read. And it will be very interesting to research about the context of this movie, to analyze its theme, and to appreciate the literary elements like symbols, images, lights, narrating sequence and so on.
ReplyDeleteI would like to analyze movies (such as "The Great Gatsby," "Kong Fu Panda," "Up," etc) or musics (such as "Flawless" by Beyonce Giselle Knowles, etc).
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read and analyze some short stories. Here is the link of Alice Munro's story "A Red Dress-1946":
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I'd like to read and analyze short but interesting stories like "The Forest." Here is the link of one of Alice Munro's short stories "To Reach Japan" from her book Dear Life.
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I'd like to discuss about articles that mainly focus on analyzing cartoons such as Neuhaus. Here is a journal that related to The Simpsons: http://library.kean.edu:2820/content/50/2/115.full.pdf+html.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read and discuss some classic short novels, like Animal Farm by George Orwell. I think our first project can be focus on something famous.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read an episode in the Simpsons: "waiting for duffman original air date" s26e17 http://www.bilibili.com/video/av2118464/
ReplyDeleteI prefer to read something like The Simpsons and The Forest. I like short stories, such as The Men in the Storm.
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