Friday, November 22, 2013

Work for the Week of November 25th - Seniors



Monday November 25th
Minutes: Humira
Reading HW: Today, we'll have the chance to speak with comedian Maysoon Zayid.  Watch some of her standup and TV appearances. 
HW: Please come up with 5 UNIQUE, informed questions about what it takes to be a female comedian.  Ms. Zayid will be taking YOUR questions so let's make the most of this experience.

 Tuesday November 26th
Minutes: Bianca
Reading HW: Read and print attached excerpt from Tina Fey's "Bossypants" for class!
HW: How does Fey characterize fe/male comedians?  What point does she try to make through her work about gender and comedy?

Wednesday November 27th
Minutes: Miranda
Reading HW:
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Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
I am not assigning you any work for the Thanksgiving break.
Get the rest that you need.

Monday December 2nd
Minutes: Crystal Liu
Reading HW:
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 24, 2013 at 11:33 AM

    This is a really good breakdown of the "women in comedy problem" by Lindy West:

    http://jezebel.com/an-open-letter-to-white-male-comedians-497503334

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  2. UnknownNovember 24, 2013 at 11:48 AM

    Also, this is a fantastic piece written by the director of Bridesmaids (a man!) about Why Men Aren't Funny, in response to the thing we read earlier. Seriously, everyone read it:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paul-feig-why-men-arent-449025

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  3. UnknownNovember 25, 2013 at 7:44 PM

    Anita Sarkeesian has a new video! This one shifts away from the damsel in distress trope, and focuses on the trope of female characters being variations of default male characters. It's really interesting, thoughtful and well-put-together and everyone should watch it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYqYLfm1rWA

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  4. UnknownNovember 30, 2013 at 3:56 PM

    This isn't really related to anything we've been talking about recently, but a little while ago a woman named Michelle Cottle wrote a ridiculous article in Politico calling Michelle Obama a "feminist nightmare," which MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry took down brilliantly on her show. One of the things she said in the course of this take-down was that seeing as Cottle clearly knew nothing about black feminism, she would be happy to send her a reading list. Earlier today, she made good on that promise and published a syllabus, which I'll link to here: http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/mhps-reading-list-black-feminism

    (the link also includes a video of her on-air response to Cottle's article)

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