MCC444: Honours Seminar in MCC, 2006
Lectures and Readings
Week 5, March 30th
•Preparation
Week 6, April 6th
•Shahn Rayner— Gender and its Engagement with ‘Work-life Balance’
Reading: V. Tichenor, ‘Maintaining Men’s Dominance: Negotiating Identity and Power When She Earns More’, Sex Roles, 53(3/4), 2005: 191–?
•Nick Chinna— Disability, Masculinity and the Body
Reading: Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer and Tom Shakespeare, ‘Enter Disability Theory’, in their Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999: 67–93.
Week 7, April 13th
•Noah Norton— Film Aesthetics: The Sexy Monster
Reading: Jack Morgan, ‘Introduction: The Body Is His Book’, in his The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002: 1–13.
•Jamie Helmer— The Monstrous Other in Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema
Reading: Timothy Iles, ‘The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films’, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, posted: October 2005. <
Semester Break
Week 8, April 27th
•Chris McLay— Interaction Design Methodology
Readings: Ben Schneiderman, Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002: 1–19.
Jef Raskin, ‘Introduction: The Importance of Fundamentals’ and ‘Background’ in his The Human Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. Stoughton: Addison Wesley, 2000: xvii-xix and 1-8.
•Michael Cunningham— A Framework for the Creation of Unobtrusive Interactive Interfaces in Music Video
Reading: Heidi Peeters, ‘The Semiotics of Music Videos: It Must Be Written in the Stars’, Image & Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative, 8, 2004. <
Week 9, May 4th
•Peta Walter— New Technology and the Body: Beyond the Image
Reading: Mark Dery, ‘Anatomy Lessons’, World Art, 20, no date given: 34–39.
•Sonia Scherini— Online Communities with Reference to Wikis
Reading: Mark Giese, ‘Constructing a Virtual Geography: Narratives of Space in a Text-based Environment’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 22(2), 1998: 152–?
Week 10, May 11th
•Felicity Poole— Mexican Cinema: ‘Identity’ and Representation
Reading: Gerald H. Macdonald, ‘Third Cinema and the Third World’, in Stuart C. Aitken and Leo E. Zonn (eds), Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994: 27–42.
•Cassie Lynch— The Wong Kar Wai Brain Womb
Reading: Jackie Stacey, ‘Feminine Facination’, in her Stargazing. London: Routledge, 1994: 127–175.
Week 11, May 18th
•Brendan Briggs— Blurring Boundaries: Documentary Response and Opening Creative Fields of Screen
Reading: Paul Ward, ‘The Future of Documentary? “Conditional Tense” Documentary and the Historical Record’, in G.D. Rhodes and J.P. Springer (eds), Docufictions: Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2006: 144–153.
•Mike Gasmire— Filmic Authorship and Creative Power-sharing: The Role of the Screenwriter
Reading: Rudolf Arnheim, ‘Who is the Author of a Film?’ in his Film Essays and Criticism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997: 62–69.
Week 12, May 25th
•Patrick Herford— Hollywoodland: Movies and the Depression Actress
Reading: Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffen, America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004: 207–235.
•Tina Hashim— Media and Anti-Terrorism Laws
Reading: Abdul Hasnat Monjurul Kabir, ‘Media at Cross Road?’. Reference not given. 2002
Week 13, June 1st
•Lynley King— Organisational Culture / Working Culture in a Paediatric Hospital Setting
Reading: Gerard Kenny, ‘Children’s Nursing and Interprofessional Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities’, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 11(3), 2002: 306–313.
Assignments due: June 2nd
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