Week 19

Week 19: Mo 12.14/We 12.16 (FINALS WEEK)

Sec. 1 Final Exam Time: Mo 12/14 from 7:15 – 9:30 AM

Sec. 7 Final Exam Time: We 12/16 from 7:15 – 9:30 AM

Class: Class review

Due: REFLECTION 8

Celebrity News 12.12.15

• Adele's new short haircut breaks the Internet (People) 
• Here are the best new bloopers of 2015 (YouTube)
• Rihanna glitters at her annual Diamond Ball (Huffington Post)
• Which celebrities most influenced new baby names in 2015? (Yahoo! News)
• "Instagram husbands" tell all in new skit (Jezebel)
• Viral video of the week: Daredevils climb Rio's Christ the Redeemer at night (YouTube)

 

Week 18

Week 18: Mo 12.7 (LAST REGULAR DAY OF CLASS)

Class: Presentations
DUE: CLOSE READ (Note Monday due date)

Upcoming:

Week 19: Mo 12.14/We 12.16 (FINALS WEEK)

Sec. 1 Final Exam Time: Mo 12/14 from 7:15 – 9:30 AM

Sec. 7 Final Exam Time: We 12/16 from 7:15 – 9:30 AM

Class: Class review

Due: REFLECTION 8

Celebrity News 12.5.15

• Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman, Scott Weiland, dead at 48 (CNN)
• Male pornstar superstar James Deen accused of rape by several female co-stars (Salon)
• What does Twitter want to name Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's new baby boy? (Us Weekly)
• Pamela Anderson named Playboy's final nude centerfold (USA Today)
• Hey, girl: Ryan Gosling breaks during Saturday Night Live alien abduction skit (People)
• Yahoo!: Bobbi Kristina Brown was most searched celebrity name in 2015 (New Music Express)

Close Read: The Paparazzi Photography of Ron Galella

A close read, sometimes called an explication, is a detailed analysis of a small section of a text, such as a paragraph of a novel, or a shorter text, such as a poem. Though traditionally applied to poetry and fiction, close reads can also be relevant to photos, songs, films, even video games. Whatever the medium, goal is always to uncover new meanings through a minute analysis.

For this assignment you will conduct close read of a photograph from the infamous paparazzo Ron Galella. In a career spanning decades, Galella was the bane of celebrities worldwide. His aggressive and intrusive style earned him many enemies. Today, however, his photographs are highly sought after by serious photograph collectors.

Below are the photos you may choose from for you close read. Write about only one.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 1968

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1971

Marlon Brando (and Ron Galella), 1973

Jaclyn Smith, 1978

Al Pacino, 1979

John F. Kennedy Jr., 1980

Sean Penn, 19986

Naomi Campbell, 1991

Requirements:

• MLA Style, including parenthetical citation
• 2-3-page minimum
• Include a works cited page

Due: Mo 12.7 (Note Monday due date)

Week 17

Week 17: Mo 11.30/We 12.2

Class: SHORT ANSWER RESPONSES; Presentations; Lecture: “Close Reads 101”

Upcoming:

Week 18: Mo 12.7 (LAST REGULAR DAY OF CLASS)

Class: Presentations
DUE: CLOSE READ (Note Monday due date)

Week 19: Mo 12.14/We 12.16 (FINALS WEEK)

Sec. 1 Final Exam Time: Mo 12/14 from 7:15 – 9:30 AM

Sec. 7 Final Exam Time: We 12/16 from 7:15 – 9:30 AM

Class: Class review

Due: REFLECTION 8

Celebrity News 11.27.15

• How Adele and the BBC pranked a group of Adele impersonators (Entertainment Weekly)
• Also ... Adele performs "Hello" on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots using classroom instruments (YouTube)
• Modern Family's Reid Ewing discloses body dysmorphia and plastic surgery past; also comes out as gay (Towleroad)
• Twitters turns on Aaron Carter after he claims Michael Jackson personally passed the torch to him (dlisted)
• Sweden's Princess Sophia debuts her royal baby bump (People)
• On trend: The glitter beard (Esquire)