8 parts, read articles ask a question for each part, 1-5 sentence/part9 times during the semester students will submit one question to the instructor. Questions should only be one to five sentences long, based in a weekly reading or readings, and MUST demonstrate a familiarity with the text(s). Questions will be marked as either 2.5 or 0, based on whether they show that the student has completed the reading(s).Part1 readings:1) Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas.” In Media and Cultural Studies Keyworks, edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner, 9 – 13. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.2) Althusser Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards and Investigation).” In Media and Cultural Studies Keyworks, edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner, 79 – 87. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.3) Williams, Raymond. “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.” In Media and Cultural Studies Keyworks, edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner, 130 – 143. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.Part2 readings:1) Hall, Stuart. “Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse.” In Stuart Hall Essays: Volume One, 257 – 276, edited by David Morley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.2) Dorfman, Ariel and Armand Mattelart. How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic, 48 – 69. I.G. Editions, 1991.Part3 readings:1) Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. “The Shot: Mise-en-Scene.” In Film Art: An Introduction, 112 – 162. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.2) Fiske, John. “Realism.” In Television Culture, 21 – 36. New York: Routledge, 1987.Part4 readings:1) Williams, Raymond. “The Technology and the Society.” In Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 1 – 26. London: Routledge, 1990.2) Groening, Stephen. “From ‘a Box in the Theatre of the World’ to ‘the World as Your Living Room’: Cellular Phones, Television and Mobile Privatization.” New Media & Society 12.8 (2010): 1331 – 1347.Part5 readings:1) Herman, Edward, and Noam Chomsky. “A Propaganda Model,” 1 – 35. In Manufacturing Consent. New York: Pantheon Book, 2002.2) Gunster, Shane. “Listening to Labour: Mainstream Media, Talk Radio, and the 2005 B.C. Teachers Strike.” Canadian Journal of Communication 33 (2008): 661 – 683.Part6 readings:1) Bordwell, David and Kristen Thompson. “Soviet Cinema in the 1920s. In Film History: An Introduction. Second edition, 119 – 142. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003.2) Braudy, Leo and Marshal Cohen. “Film Language.” In Film Theory and Criticism, 1 – 6.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.Part7 readings:1) hooks, bell. “A Guiding Light: An Interview with Charles Burnett.” In Reel to Real: Race, Class, and Sex at the Movies, 192 – 215. New York: Routledge Classics, 2009.2)Massood, Paula J. “An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo)Realism, and the Documentary Impulse.” Wide Angle 21 no. 4 (1999): 20 – 41.Part8 readings:1) Alters, Diane F. “‘We Hardly Watch that Rude, Crude Show’: Class and Taste in The Simpsons.” In Prime Time Animation, 165 – 184, edited by Carol Stabile, and Mark Harrison. New York: Routledge, 2003.2) Sharzer, Greg. “Frank Grimes’ Enemy: Precarious Labour and Realism in The Simpsons.” Animation 12 no. 2 (2017): 138 – 155.Part9 readings:1) Carroll, Hamilton. “Men’s Soaps: Automotive Television Programming and Contemporary Working-Class Masculinities.” Television & New Media 9 no. 4 (2008) 263 – 283.2) Lyle, Samantha. A. “(Mis)recognition and the Middle-Class/Bourgeois Gaze: A Case Study of Wife Swap.” Critical Discourse Studies 5 No. 4 (November 2008): 319 – 330.Due May. 24

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