Write a 3000- word paper (approximately ten pages) that uses a combination of concepts to analyze a media artifact.

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Your final paper should be carefully crafted, well written, concise and specific, evidencing careful thinking, editing,and revision, and demonstrating your critical thinking and writing skills, as well as your understanding of contemporary forms of communication.

FINAL PAPER OVERVIEW The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model in combination with one or more the following readings

:Theodore W. Adorno, “On Popular Music”Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”Roland Barthes, “Myth Today”Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”Jacqueline Bobo, “The Color Purple: Black Woman and Cultural Readers”Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, “The Double Logic of Remediation”Pierre Bourdieu, “Distinction and the Aristocracy of Culture”Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”Michel de Certeau,“The Practices of Everyday Life”John Fiske, “Understanding Popular Culture”Jane Gerard,“Sex and The City: Carrie Bradshaws Queer Postfeminism”Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State”Stuart Hall, “What Is This Black in Black PopularCulture?”Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, “A Propaganda Model”Richard Hoggart, “The Full Rich Life & The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets”Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”Brenton Malin, “Policing the Crisis of Masculinity”Marshall McLuhan,“The Medium is the Message”Ted Magder, “Television 2.0”Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels,“Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas”Lana Rakow, “Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture”Slavoj Žižek, “Cynicism and Ideology”

You will write a 3000- word paper (approximately ten pages) that uses a combination of concepts to analyze a media artifact. Ideally, you should select theories that interest you and compliment one another. This will not only make your paper easier to write, it will make it more enjoyable to read. Keep in mind that you do not always have to agree with the theories you are using. Instead, your goal should be to construct a discussion that explores how a particular set of ideas can help us better understand some aspect of our relationship with media.

Things to keep in mind:

•Choose an object to study that narrows your discussion. For example, analyze two or three moviesor television shows in a franchise, not a whole genre.

•Construct your discussion using an outline that has aclear introduction with a thesis (pages 1-2), three to five supporting examples (pages 3-9), and ends with a conclusion that summarizes your main points (page10).

•This is not a research paper. This paper is meant to be an exercise in critical thought—this means you only need to cite relevant course readingswhen appropriate

•Your papers should also attend to the norms of college-level writing (e.g., typed, double-spaced, single-sided, 12pt Times New Roman font, and so on)

Also, it must be roughly 3000 words.

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