Introduce a transmedia work that belongs to the genre of the week fan video remake Source text: Harry Potter booksTarget text: Harry potter fan remake videos.(anyone from the link below)https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/13-harry-potter-fan-films-ranked 3. Summarize and explain the similarities and differences between the source text and target text in terms of narrative plot and visuality, and then offer […]
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Picassos Guernica
May 19th, 2022 
This week you are asked to consider Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica. Give three reasons why you do or do not believe this painting has been a successful form of public political protest. You may consider questions like “Would I even call this a protest? What was its original purpose? What has it achieved over the […]
Political Abstraction
May 16th, 2022 How are contemporary artists engaging with abstraction (non-objective art) and modernism? Step 1: See these videos and take notes on these artists different views on abstraction, its legacy in the 21st century, and how abstraction can be political. Julie Mehretu, https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/julie-mehretu-politicized-landscapes-short/ (09: 54 minutes)Mark Bradford, https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s4/mark-bradford-in-paradox-segment/ (14 minutes, up till the shot)(d/collage is a term […]
Manifestos
May 16th, 2022 Create your own manifesto. Step 1. Watch the movie, Manifesto on Kanopy.To access: Go to the BMCC library webpage (upper right bar on the first page when entering bmcc.edu). Then click on Databases (complete list of databases) and go to the letter K to search for Kanopy. You will be asked to type your BMCC […]
compare and contrast
May 15th, 2022 comparing thoseneighborhoods with the one her/his group researched. In particular, these essays will comparing theneighborhoods as places for children to grow up, in terms of the variables studied during the semester.All statements in the essay must be supported by data. Where possible, students should frame theiressays as upholding or critiquing theoretical viewpoints explored during the […]
Compare and Contrast
May 14th, 2022 “The Formal Museum Paper is five page compare and contrast essay of two artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Observing the primary sources, the student will complete a description and analysis of the historical movements connected to the chosen artworks. Successful papers will name and classify the artworks and display an understanding of the […]
Any topic (writer’s choice)
May 11th, 2022 For this specific assignment you will be watching an artist lecture by Tania Bruguera which she delivered in August of 2019 at the Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne, Australia as the Keynote Address of their two day symposium titled Lets Go Outside: Making Art Public. Bruguera is a politically motivated performance artist from […]
Music Perpective Q/A
May 11th, 2022 Please choose two of the following questions and answer them giving your own perspective. Your answer for each question should be about two full paragraphs, more if needed. Please cite outside sources, include a citation page. A What are some ways that music performances and performance settings are explicitly gendered? B How are musical activities […]
Cinematic Los Angeles: Film and the city
May 10th, 2022 1. After reading: “Cinema and the city” by Knox and picking a quote, answer to these questions: How does the city influence film, and how does film influence the city? (250 words min) begin with the quote and then explain why this quote answers to the questions. 2 .Respond to this person’s post, follow […]
Any topic (writer’s choice)
May 10th, 2022 For your first assessment you need to focus on a Hollywood case or incident that has been considered controversial. You may choose to focus on a specific film, star, producer, filmmaker that has been publicly criticized, questioned or even denounced. For example: Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and rape allegations; Johnny Depp and his dismissal from the […]
