Week 8 Revised Syllabus Week 9 Nov 6

Week 8

Revised Syllabus • • Week 9 Nov. 6 Czech Dream / Film Review • • • SUNDAY, NOV. 11 Submit draft of Magazine or Journal article to Susan via email Week 10/11 INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES TO EDIT DRAFTS in List Library 6 E 16 th, 8 th floor. Nov. 13 Week 12 Cultural Excursions Submit film review: 750 words Nov. 20 Week 13 Technology Critiques Nov. 27 Week 14 The Exhibition Review Dec. 4 Week 15 Comic (book) review Final Magazine article/Journal paper due Dec. 11 • • •

Assignments for next week • Week 9 Film Review: Viewing of Czech Dream Nov. 6 Directed by Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, 2004 (1. 5 hrs. ) • • Read: • “The Toothpaste Aisle, ” Karrie Jacobs, Metropolis. com https: //www. metropolismag. com/uncategorized/the-toothpasteaisle/ • • “From Uma to Puma – on the role of the fake in Polish transition, ” Magda Szczes niak (unpublished, shared by author) • • “RIP Decorum, ” Lorraine Wild, Observer, 2005 • Write: • A 750 -word review of “Czech Dream” due Nov. 20, Wk 12. Your review should use the readings to amplify your arguments. •

Characteristics of magazine writing Discursive, often speculative Metaphorical Discernable prose style Less self-consciously structured Characteristics of academic journal writing Abstract, key words Ordered not rambling Precedents situate the argument Not given to speculation but to presenting different dimensions of other theories

Remember: Designed things (objects, places, experiences) each have an underlying argument or ideaconcept within them. In looking closely and describing them (and touching them if possible), they begin to reveal that argument/idea.

The Profile

Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987)

Diego Della Valle (1953 - )

Le Marche, Italy

Tod’s shoes

Gianni Agnelli 1921 -2003

The Kennedys and Agnelli