Animating the Other Class Schedule

CLASS SCHEDULE:

WEEK 1      8/23: Introduction, Class Constitution,

Read: What is Animation

Screen: Meat Love, Backyardigans, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

WEEK 2     8/30: Race – Native American 

Read: Disney and Native American Experience & Film as a Cultural practice (emailed to you)

Screen: Disney Shorts, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron

WEEK 3     9/6: Race – Asian

Read: Animating Race

Pence on Mulan

 Aladdin & Orientalism

Screen: Aladdin King of Thieves, Mulan

WEEK 4      9/13: Race – Asian

Read:  Disney and Public Culture

Animating the Unconscious

Screen: Much Apu Nothing, The Problem with Apu, Spirited Away

WEEK 5     9/20: Race – African American

Read:  Blackness in the Early Days

Race

Screen: Fat Albert & Boondocks

WEEK 6     9/27: Race – African American

Read: Black Superheroes

Colorblind

Comic book masculinity

Screen: Various TV shows, Home

WEEK 7     10/4:  Race: Latino/Latina  // Work Day 

 ** Everyone must blog on today’s readings and screenings**

Read:  Saludos Amigos & 3 Caballeros

Disney and Latino Children

Screen: Turbo or Coco

WEEK 8     10/11: Gender – Femininity

Read: Disney Feminism

Disney & the Sexual Revolution

Teaching Presentations:

Tyra – Satire and Race

Laura – Gender Wall-E

Screen: Leap

WEEK 9     10/18:   Gender – Good Girls, Mothers, Bad girls

Read: Might As Well be Dead

Freezing versus Wrecking

Motherhood

Teaching Presentation:

JT & Alex Good Girls

Screen: 

WEEK 10     10/25:Read: Gender – Masculinity

Read: New Man

Masculinity in King of the Hill

Teaching Presentations:

Ronja – Futurama

Khara – Mouse to Mermaid &   Beauty, Beast Diversity

Matt & Keimon – chapter from Heroes and Villians

Screen:

WEEK 11    11/1: Gender – Father, Bad Boys, Evil Villains  

 Read: Fatherhood Masculinity

Masculinity

  Dashing Heroes

Teaching Presentations:

Dustin

Screen:

WEEK 12     11/8: Gender – Adolescents

Read: Akira Ramna

No Perfect Girl

Powerpuff Girls

Teaching Presentations:

Diksha – Persepolis

Michael – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/189199 and violence in animation

Aliyah & Jasmine

Screen:

WEEK 13     11/15: Sexuality 

Read:

Teaching Presentations:

Deion

Kennedy & Kate – queer resistance &  trouble with pronouns

Screen:

WEEK 14     11/22: Thanksgiving Break 

WEEK 15     11/29:   Sexuality 

Read:

Ryan – Transgender

Screen:

WEEK 16      12/6: Final Presentations

Final Exam: DECEMBER 13, 2018     8:00 am to 10:00 am      Final Presentations

Do NOT make final plans to go home until the final schedule has been announced.