Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak.
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Transcript of Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak.
Samples of Popular Culture Use
• Analyzing Modern Problems/Solutions– Watchmen (2009)– Serenity (2005)
Samples of Popular Culture Use• Historical/Perspectives: Views of the West• How the West Was Won (1962)• Dances With Wolves (1990)• Avatar (2009)
Samples of Popular Culture Use
• Academic value of unconventional sources: Comics– Importance of context– Importance of language/vocabulary
Use of Comics to Illustrate Issues of Body Image
• Men are vastly overrepresented as characters in comic books
• Male 82%• Female 18%– (data based on Marvel comic encyclopeia entries)
Body Type: height and weight
• Male (average for white men)– 5’10” 180lbs
• For superheroes– 65.4% 6’ or over
• 63% over 180• Female (average for white women)– 5’5” 140 lbs
• For superheroes– 66% 5’7” or taller– 68% under 150 lbs
Sample Curriculum: Film
• Background/Context– Early Cold War – Events/Policies– Vietnam
• History/Culture• French to American Involvement
• Primary Documents– Perceptions of the War
• Politician’s speeches• Soldiers’ memoirs
• Film and the Vietnam War– Discussion of uses of popular culture first
• Discussion of film clips
Sample Curriculum - Comics
• Background– Background/Context of War– Comics• Definition• Vocabulary
• Comics and the Vietnam War– Iron Man– Man Thing
• Discussion of Readings/Material
Comics and Politics
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Definitions/Styles in Comics
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