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Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority

Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority. Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak. Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority. The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach. Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority. The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach.

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Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority

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  1. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak

  2. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

  3. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

  4. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

  5. Samples of Popular Culture Use • Analyzing Modern Problems/Solutions • Watchmen (2009) • Serenity (2005)

  6. Samples of Popular Culture Use • Historical/Perspectives: Views of the West • How the West Was Won (1962) • Dances With Wolves (1990) • Avatar (2009)

  7. Samples of Popular Culture Use • Historical/Perspectives: War • Green Berets (1968) • Platoon (1986)

  8. Samples of Popular Culture Use • Historical/Perspectives: Gender • Dr. No (1962) • Skyfall (2012)

  9. Samples of Popular Culture Use • Academic value of unconventional sources: Comics • Importance of context • Importance of language/vocabulary

  10. Use of Comics to Illustrate Issues of Body Image • Men are vastly overrepresented as characters in comic books • Male 82% • Female 18% • (data based on Marvel comic encyclopeia entries)

  11. Body Type: height and weight • Male (average for white men) • 5’10” 180lbs • For superheroes • 65.4% 6’ or over • 63% over 180 • Female (average for white women) • 5’5” 140 lbs • For superheroes • 66% 5’7” or taller • 68% under 150 lbs

  12. Batman First appearance: 1939

  13. Green Lantern First appearance: 1940

  14. Storm First appearance: Giant Size X-Men #1

  15. Black Canary First appearance: 1947

  16. Double Dare First appearance: 1999

  17. Sample Curriculum: Film • Background/Context • Early Cold War – Events/Policies • Vietnam • History/Culture • French to American Involvement • Primary Documents • Perceptions of the War • Politician’s speeches • Soldiers’ memoirs • Film and the Vietnam War • Discussion of uses of popular culture first • Discussion of film clips

  18. Sample Curriculum: Film • Green Berets (1968) • Platoon (1986)

  19. Sample Curriculum - Comics • Background • Background/Context of War • Comics • Definition • Vocabulary • Comics and the Vietnam War • Iron Man • Man Thing • Discussion of Readings/Material

  20. Comics and Politics • Definition of a comic: “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.” • Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, p 9

  21. Comics vs. Cartoons

  22. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Use of icons

  23. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Use of icons

  24. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Icons help characters seem universal • (The Adventures of Tin Tin, Herges)

  25. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Panels/Gutters

  26. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Panels/Gutters

  27. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Panels/Gutters

  28. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Panels/Gutters

  29. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Panels/Gutters

  30. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Closure

  31. Definitions/Styles in Comics • Closure

  32. Vietnam War – Iron Man

  33. Vietnam War – Iron Man

  34. Vietnam War – Iron Man

  35. Vietnam War – Man Thing

  36. Vietnam War – Man Thing

  37. Vietnam War – Man Thing

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