Adaptation

It's probably too late for the John Adams class, but Salman Rushdie had a really interesting article on novel to film adaptation in The Guardian this morning.
It seems he was teaching a similar course to Adams at the same time! He mentions The Age of Innocence, No Country for Old Men amongst others, and he takes apart Danny Boyle's capitalist, colonialist, chauvanist, crowd-pleasing Slumdog Millionare.

Ideas for a Masterseminar?

Mr H said we should approach the dept with our suggestions for a seminar aimed at Master students. I think this is a good idea as it does present us with a possibility to have another class together next summer and I think we should do it. What are the ideas for topics? Someone mentioned conspiracy theories and I know a lot of us want to do media and popular culture. I wouldn't mind something on news dissemination (modern journalism and news programs) or the use of imagery in today's world.

Is Race 'Real'?

Hi everyone!

On my research for a term paper on the post-racial space, I came across a great site with high quality information, essays, etc., on race in relation to biology, genetics, and cultural construction. Maybe someone of you is interested in this topic as well. Enjoy!

http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/

Links and Blogs

Hi Guys!

I've been busy as you see with the links and blogs, check it out, the Semiotics one is actually a book by Chandler made available online, media theory has great really funny stuff and kiss is a kind of quick ref. for cultural theory.book list to follow!!:-))))vlg vicki

Here the ad for sony as a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bb8P7dfjVw

and here how they made it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bEOtpqYpA

awesome, and load of ye olde americana with the postboxes, chevrolets and ford pickups oh my!lol

Technology and humanity

http://www.martinarnaldo.com/extropian/extropian.htm

A short website about advertising technology and how they try to make technology appeal to us not on a practical but on an emotional level.

I like the ad with all the coloured balls...apparently it's real (won some awards at Cannes and is not all computer generated). I like how he says "I kept thinking that the more a product is cold and technological (in this instance it’s a computer chip), the more its representation needed to be humane."

Like the T-mobile ad with the rose petals in the street...that ad kind of contradicts itself.

Barthes

A whole new meaning to myth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4PCKa3TNO8

Fan Culture Stuff

Henry Jenkins' homepage for everyone interested in Fan Culture (or maybe for future Hausarbeit-purposes;)

http://henryjenkins.org/

1968 issues

Jesus Camp: a brilliant documentary on current Evangelist indoctrination of children in America. Available to watch online.

Kore Texts Kolloquium

When, and in what order?