Units in the 2nd semester
1) Photo essay / photojournalistic or artists theme.
2) Masks and carnival: paper masks and the music and global impact of carnival.
3) Jazz music slide show or video. Artistic expression through a collection of (20) images set to a classic jazz tune from Miles Davis, John Coltrane or Louis Armstrong.
4) Video and audio production: an expressive video production guided by a 3-minute pop tune soundtrack. Homage to MTV and the world of pop music videos.
5) History of rock and soul.
- What happened in 1940's in pop culture that set the scene for the birth of rock.
- Rock Around the Clock: black and white cultures jive and American Bandstand is rocked by Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard & Jerry Lee Lewis.
- Civil Rights and 'Nam and the music of the 1960's. Berry Gordy and Soul, including the Supremes, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. San Francisco psychedelia; the Beatles and Rolling Stones.
- Sugar Hill, Brooklyn: the rise of hip-hop culture in the 80's and 90's.
6) Drama -
A reading of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A dark comedy that shocked America in the 1960's, it set a pattern for literary inquiries into domestic strife.
7) Dance -
Why dance participation and awareness is a lifetime pursuit.
Reviews of a) ballet b) jazz c) circle / folk dance.
8) Sculpture -
Traditional full relief and bas relief statuary from churches and public buildings. Modern sculptors Auguste Rodin, Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Alexander Calder. Student
soap carving.
9) History of Cinema - possibilities include
Metropolis (1927)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City of God (2002)
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