Welcome

Welcome to the module blog for 200MC. At certain points in the module, you will be required to post information up here and, more importantly, to start commenting on other peoples’ work.  All of this will be clearly outlined to you in lectures and seminars. Over the course of the module, the blog will build up into a resource that you can use when writing the final assessed piece. The more you read and the more you contribute, the more likely you are to be successful in that piece!

URGENT NOTICE

Owing to an oversight, the wrong times for submission were published in last week’s lecture. The correct times are between 11-3. Reception will not take any assignments after this time. If you come after 3.00, please ask Reception to put the assignments in Martyn Lee’s pigeonhole. Cheers and apologies for any inconvenience.

This Week’s Work: Week 7 (17th November)

This week we will be looking at how realist texts construct narratives, both about the events in the text and outside the text. So, we will be examining a case study of one text in detail to look at how it has been constructed, the types of narrative within it, the types of readings possible and its possible ideological implications.

Once we have worked through this case study in the lecture, you will be required to undertake the same process of deconstruction with a text of your choice.

Semiotic analysis:

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This Week’s Work

This week we are going to build upon the work that Martyn did over the last three weeks around realism and pleasure by looking at narratives of the city and the ways in which experience of ‘the city’ is represented in realist and non-realist texts.

New York Mindmap

Watch the following clips (sorry: embed tags didn’t work so you will need to click through)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq_ko5jVMBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2oHTYkYm8s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZRuBEDFqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyRqR56aCKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSpBIt3ZOw

It took me three minutes to get these off YouTube. These are five representations (out of hundreds of thousands) of New York that could be chosen. It is one of the (if not THE) most represented city on earth.

Michael Jackson Artefacts

Hi All

Thanks for presenting your artefacts today. We would like each group to post up their artefact on this blog (or provide a link to the artefact) AND to provide a written description of the group’s analysis and reflections after the comments made in the seminars.

These reflections might include:

• whether the artefact achieved its purpose and why/why not
• whether the artefact diverged from the accepted conventions of its genre and, if so, how and why
• how the artefact made meaning
• whether the audience would be likely to accept or oppose the preferred meaning
• what producing the artefact taught you about the issues under discussion: genre, narrative, institution, realism, pleasure etc.