Popular Culture [Thursday, December 6, 4th Period]

[rose-bad-wolf.livejournal.com]

Rose entered the class, smiling.

"Afternoon, class, I trust you've had an interesting week. Let's get started on the tests, shall we?" Rose took out a handful of papers and passed them around.

There were a series of questions written on the paper:

1) Do television programs provide us with honest depictions of culture?

2) Do television programs show positive portrayals of gender and/or race?

Rose tilted her head and waited for her class to finish. "All right, since you lot are done and the finals are just 'round the corner." Rose brought out digital video cameras and started handing them to each student. "I want you lot to make a documentary on any subject you think you can relate to class. I mean anything. Then on finals we'll view each footage and defend why you think your documentary relates to popular culture. It's that easy. So, better get started on the project, yeah?"

(Please wait for OCD up! Slow Play is Life)

Comments

Re: Testing Time [12/06]

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Anyone who probably wasn't Rose or Teddy who had to listen to Chad ramble on about music might be surprised that his answers to his test questions were equally random, the first talking about how there were certain things about the culture that were honestly depicted, but others that did not, and he cited anime as an example a lot, considering his own exposure to it when he lived in Japan. For the second question, he wrote a lot about how, sometimes, yes, they were positive, but that they depended on stereotypes. He didn't fault television programs for this; they kind of had to to appeal to audiences and, well all is said and done, he made the point that TV can only show a little bit of life, and it's better to just go out and live it instead.