| Instructor: Dr. Julia
Gardner |
Unit 3: Transformation and Revision
Rhetorical Objectives:
- Organizing results ofresearch and incorporating this work into your essay
- Evaluating sources
- Using mulitple sources within one essay
- Using MLA style for formatting the research paper and bibliography
- How to introduce and contextualize quoted material
- Acknowledging sources
- Developing a theory of your own and situating it in relation to the work of others
Week 10
10 March Paper 2 due; Swan Lake
13 March Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Week 11
17-20 March Maus
Week 12
24 March Princess Mononoke
27 March Princess Mononoke; Napier, Shiokawa
Week13
31 March Research methods
3 April Thesis testing; presentations
Week 14
Peer review and conferences
Paper 3 due 18 April
Readings:
- Adventures in Motion Pictures: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. 1996
- Princess Mononoke. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Miramax Films, 1997.
- Napier, Susan. Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 175-192.
- Shiokawa, Kanako, "Cute but Deadly: Women and Violence in Japanese Comics" in Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad, Sexy ed. John A. Lent. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular P,1999. 93-126.
- Speigleman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Volume 2: And Here My Troubles Began. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 1992.Complete two-volume set available in the Reading Room
Topical Thoughts:
What happens when authors and artists re-imagine history, tell a common story in a new way, or otherwise incorporate elements of transformation and revision in their work? We will study three such examples and discuss which elements and aesthetics are transformed, what exactly is being revised, and consider these transformed products in a larger context.
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