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All screening times given below are approximate.
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Key to abbreviations for assignments listed on this page: |
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| FMTM | From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells, editors. 1995. ISBN: 978-0253209788 |
| DD | Deconstructing Disney. Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan, editors, 1999. ISBN 0745314511 |
| View | View the assigned film via free streaming hyperlinks on D2L before class |
| D2L | PDF files posted online via D2L. |
Please note: this syllabus is subject to change (with notice).
Saturday, August 7
| Introduction to the course | |
| Video Lectures: | 1.1.1 - 1.1.4 on D2L |
| Quiz 0 (No-Show requirement!) | --Must view Video Lectures 1.1-1.4 in full before Quiz 0 will open
--Complete Quiz 0 on the syllabus and introductory Video Lectures before Monday at 11:59pm --Lockdown Browser and Respondus Webcam Monitor required --Use the Practice Quiz on D2L to check that you have the latest version *well before* each quiz |
Monday, August 9
| View: | Mickey Mouse Monopoly (Media Education Foundation 2002, 52 min.) on D2L |
| Video Lectures: | 1.1.5 - 1.1.6 Watch these two videos that discuss the film *after* viewing Mickey Mouse Monopoly |
| Quiz 0 | due before 11:59pm |
Wednesday, August 11
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Henry Giroux, "Memory and Pedagogy in the 'Wonderful World of Disney'" (FMTM Ch.2 read pp. 43-48 only) |
| 2. Lee Artz, “Monarchs, Monsters and Multiculturalism” from Rethinking Disney (D2L read pp. 75-83 only) |
| Quiz 1: | Take right at 3:10pm, then sign into Teams meeting by 3:20pm --Be at your computer ready to take the quiz by 3:05p, then click to start right at 3:10p; expires at 3:15p --Lockdown Browser and Respondus Webcam Monitor required --Use the Practice Quiz on D2L to check that you have the latest version *well before* each quiz --Quiz 1 covers readings and film Mickey Mouse Monopoly |
Monday, August 16
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Jack Zipes, “Breaking the Disney Spell” (FMTM Ch.1 read 21-33 only) |
| Video Lectures: | 2.1.1 - 2.1.4 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz --Must complete Quiz at 3:10pm before Video Lectures will open --Video Lectures should be viewed during our class time right after Quiz --May revisit Video Lectures before they expire at 11:59pm |
Wednesday, August 18
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| View: | Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen, 1940, 88 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Claudia Card, "Pinocchio" (FMTM Ch.3 62-71) |
Monday, August 23
| View: | Bambi (David Hand, 1942, 67 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. David Payne, "Bambi" (FMTM Ch.8 137-147) |
| 2. Susan Miller and Greg Rode "The Movie You See, The Movie You Don't" (FMTM Ch.5 86-92) |
| Video Lectures: | 3.1.1 - 3.1.5 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, August 25
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| View: | The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reiterman, 1967, 78 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Susan Miller and Greg Rode "The Movie You See, The Movie You Don't" (FMTM Ch.5 92-102) |
Monday, August 30
| View: | 101 Dalmatians (Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske, 1961, 79 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Patrick M. Murphy, "The Whole Wide World Was Scrubbed Clean" (FMTM Ch.7 125-136 okay to skim--not skip--pages 131-134) |
| Video Lectures: | 4.1.1 - 4.1.5 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, September 1
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| View: | The Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, 1955, 76 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan, “’You Can’t Lionise the Lion': Racing Disney" (DD Ch.5 read pp. 94-99 only) |
Monday, September 6
| NO CLASS MEETING IN HONOR OF LABOR DAY HOLIDAY |
Wednesday, September 8
| **NO TEAMS MEETING TODAY after 3:10p quiz** |
| View via Disney+ or DVD: | Fantasia (James Algar and Samuel Armstrong, 1940, 120 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Moya Luckett, "Fantasia: Cultural Constructions of Disney's 'Masterpiece'" from Smoodin, Disney Discourse (D2L 214-236) |
| Video Lectures: | 5.1.1 - 5.1.6 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Monday, September 13
| View: | The Lion King (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994; 90 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Lee Artz, “Monarchs, Monsters and Multiculturalism” from Rethinking Disney (D2L read pp. 83-98 only) |
| 2. Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan, “’You Can’t Lionise the Lion': Racing Disney" (DD Ch.5 pp. 100-105 only) |
| Video Lectures: | 6.1.1 - 6.2.3 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, September 15
| Teams Meeting | at 3:10pm today |
| Wrap up for Section 1 including The Lion King discussion and review for Exam 1. Bring your questions! |
Monday, September 20
| EXAM 1: | On campus in person at 3:10pm in U322. Bring a scantron, 2 pencils, and 2 pens. |
Wednesday, September 22
| **NO TEAMS MEETING TODAY after 3:10p quiz** |
| View: | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937; 84 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | Jack Zipes, “Breaking the Disney Spell” (FMTM Ch.1 33-42) |
| Video Lectures: | 7.1.1 - 7.1.6 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Monday, September 27
| View: | Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, 1950, 76 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | Elizabeth Bell, “Somatexts at the Disney Shop: Constructing the Pentimentos of Women’s Animated Bodies” (FMTM Ch.6 107-124) |
| Video Lectures: | 8.1.1 - 8.2.2 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, September 29
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| View: | Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi, 1959, 75 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | Amanda Putnam, "Mean Ladies: Transgendered Villains in Disney Films" from Cheu, Diversity in Disney Films (2013) (D2L read only pages 152-157) |
Monday, October 4
| View: | The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements and John Musker, 1989, 83 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | Jill Birnie Henke, et. al., “Constructions of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine” (D2L read only pages 231, 234-241, 244-245) |
| Video Lectures: | 9.1.1 - 9.2.1 and 9.2.3 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, October 6
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| Reading & Quiz: | Laura Sells, “’Where do the Mermaids Stand?’ Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid” (FMTM Ch.11 175-192--okay to skim the conclusion) |
Monday, October 11
| View: | Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, 1991, 90 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | Susan Jeffords, “The Curse of Masculinity: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” (FMTM Ch.10 161-172) |
| Video Lectures: | 10.1.1 - 10.1.8 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, October 13
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| View: | The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2009, 97 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Dorothy Hurley, “Seeing White: Children of Color and the Disney Fairy Tale Princesses” (D2L 221-226 and 230--okay to skim 227-229 for solutions to the problem--HINT!) |
| 2. Virginia Bonner, "'Gonna Take You There': Cultural Appropriation in Disney's The Princess and the Frog" (D2L read pages 1-5) |
Monday, October 18
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Virginia Bonner, "'Gonna Take You There': Cultural Appropriation in Disney's The Princess and the Frog" (D2L read pages 5-15) |
| Video Lectures: | 11.1.1 - 11.1.5 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, October 20
| EXAM 2: | On campus in person in U322. * Exam 2 covers all films, readings, and lectures from Section 2. * Exam format includes Short Answer (Part 1) and Multiple Choice/T-F (Part 2) questions. * Bring a scantron, 2 pencils, and 2 pens. |
| View: | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, 1996, 91 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan, 2 excerpts from from Deconstructing Disney: "Introduction" and “King of the Swingers: Queering Disney” (DD Intro & Ch.7 read pp. 7-14 and 133-143 only) |
| Video Lectures: | 12.1.1 - 12.1.5 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, October 27
| Teams Meeting | at 3:20pm today after 3:10p quiz |
| View: | Mulan (Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, 1998, 88 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1.Sheng-Mei Ma, “Mulan Disney, It’s Like, Re-Orients: Consuming China and Animating Teen Dreams” in The Emperor's Old Groove (D2L read pp. 149-157 only) |
Monday, November 1
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Gwendolyn Limbach, "You the Man, Well, Sort Of" in Diversity in Disney Films 2013 (D2L read pp. 121-126 only) |
| Optional: | 2. Maxine Hong Kingston, “White Tigers” chapter from The Woman Warrior (D2L) |
| Video Lectures: | 13.1.1 - 13.1.4 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Wednesday, November 3
| ***No Teams Meeting today*** |
| View: | Aladdin (Ron Clements and John Musker, 1992, 90 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Jack Shaheen, “Aladdin: Animated Racism” (from Cineaste) (D2L) |
| 2.Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan, excerpt from from Deconstructing Disney: "Spectographies: Conjuring Disney" (DD Ch.4 read the paragraph from bottom of p. 73-mid 74 and pages 78-82 only) |
| Video Lectures: | 13.2.1. - 13.2.7 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
| **Creative Careers Fair on Friday, November 5** |
Monday, November 8
| Teams Meeting | at 3:10pm today (no quiz today) |
| View for Discussion: | Aladdin (Ron Clements and John Musker, 1992, 90 min.) (Study Guide) |
| ***No Teams Meeting today*** |
| View for Monday: | Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, 1995, 84 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Derek Buescher & Kent Ono, “Civilized Colonialism: Pocahontas as Neocolonial Rhetoric” (D2L read pp. 127-147 and 151; okay to skim Conclusion pp. 147-150) |
| 2. Gail Tremblay, “Reflecting on Pocahontas” (D2L) | |
| 3. Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan, excerpt from from Deconstructing Disney: “’You Can’t Lionise the Lion': Racing Disney" (DD Ch.5 read pp. 105-110 only) |
| Video Lectures: | 14.2.1 - 14.2.8 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
Monday, November 15
| View: | Moana (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016, 107 min.) (Study Guide) |
| Reading & Quiz: | 1. Joanna Robinson, "Earning Trust: How Pacific Islanders helped Moana Find Its Way" from Vanity Fair 2016 (D2L) |
| 2. Britany Popovich, "Disney's Cultural Appropriation in Moana" from F Newsmagazine 2016 | |
| 3. Smithsonian.org, "How the Story of Moana and Maui Holds Up Against Cultural Truths" 2016 |
| Video Lectures: | 15.1.1 - 15.1.2 on D2L after 3:10pm Quiz |
| Online Course Evaluations this week |
Wednesday, November 17
| Teams Meeting | at 3:10pm (no quiz today) for discussion of Pocahontas, Moana, and Section 3 wrap-up/review. |
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Bring your laptop or smartphone to class. * Online Course Evaluations end this week. * Class party potluck: Bring food "to share" with the class! |
| Assignment: | Closing Feedback Survey assigned and due before Monday |
Monday, November 22
| EXAM 3: | On campus in person in U322. Bring a scantron, 2 pencils, and 2 pens. |
* Exam 3 covers all films, readings, and video lectures from Section 3 and major themes from Sections 1 and 2. |