Week 7
- Watch the following links below and then answer the questions
“Ice Epidemic”, A Current Affair, August 10th, 2015,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4e6iBvFw2c 0:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLxpVukrqJY 11:31
Bowling for Columbine, doco., excerpts. Dir. Michael Moore, 2002.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOFSOeOBsk 3:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cglnvXzitOQ 2:19
What cultural values are being argued over by the subcultural group, represented by Manson and his clothing/music style and those blaming him/his followers for the gun violence?
Going by the excerpts, does Moore’s documentary offer an effective negotiation of the moral panic over Manson and his followers, generated by/in the media? If not why not?
Can the way the ice issue is presented by ACA be understood in terms of McRobbie’s and Thornton’s argument that moral panic needs to modified in response to the expansion of mass media. If so, in what ways?
Week 8
- Watch/listen to the Following: “Shopping Malls in America”, BBC documentary 2016
- Then answer the questions below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhkwYWf80e8
How does the ‘themed’ post-modern urban environment/architecture differ from the modern city space/architecture?
What are the implications for ‘others’ of surveillance in post-modern shopping malls?
Discuss whether you have felt disorientated in postmodern spaces such as themed parks, shopping malls etc. If so, what architectural aspects of the space contributed to your disorientation?
