Media Curation Assignment.
Description The idea of “curation” refers to the process of putting together a collection of things into a list, display, or presentation (like in a museum or a gallery). For the purposes of this assignment, we take this idea of curation towards popular culture. Your objective in this assignment is to come up with a “curated” list of examples from popular culture that demonstrate (or otherwise speak to) one of the main pop culture tropes we are examining in the first half of the course. These include: the “Dark Continent”, “Yellow Peril”/“model minority”, “noble savage”/“dangerous savage”, the “Terrorist”, and “Whiteness”. For the assignment, you are to select one of these tropes, and then come up with an annotated list of 5 examples from popular culture (past or present) that relate to it. The annotation for each of the 5 items on your list should feature a brief commentary explaining what the item is, and how you think it relates to the main trope on which you’re focusing the assignment. See below for further details on what kinds of things you might include in your list, and what your annotations should feature. You can think of this as a brainstorming exercise of sorts in which you’re thinking about the different ways these tropes have been expressed in popular culture. The idea of “curation” refers to the process of putting together a collection of things into a list, display, or presentation (like in a museum or a gallery). For the purposes of this assignment, we take this idea of curation towards popular culture. Your objective in this assignment is to come up with a “curated” list of examples from popular culture that demonstrate (or otherwise speak to) one of the main pop culture tropes we are examining in the first half of the course. These include: the “Dark Continent”, “Yellow Peril”/“model minority”, “noble savage”/“dangerous savage”, the “Terrorist”, and “Whiteness”. For the assignment, you are to select one of these tropes, and then come up with an annotated list of 5 examples from popular culture (past or present) that relate to it. The annotation for each of the 5 items on your list should feature a brief commentary explaining what the item is, and how you think it relates to the main trope on which you’re focusing the assignment. See below for further details on what kinds of things you might include in your list, and what your annotations should feature. You can think of this as a brainstorming exercise of sorts in which you’re thinking about the different ways these tropes have been expressed in popular culture.