cmns230 brings together your interests your reflection on the subject use the three source that i give you

The highlight of your work in the course is your final essay. Your final paper brings together your interests, your reflection on the subject matter outlined in the course and your theoretical apparatus developed during the term. You are required to write a 5-8 page double-spaced final essay (suggested length 1,500 – 2,000 words) on a topic of your choice stemming from the course material and that involves a corpus of texts and a min of 3 theories/concepts covered in the course. A corpus of texts is a small sample that helps you glean a more general idea about a range of cultural objects (e.g. look at 3 movies dealing with female/male characters, or a set of episodes from a show, or a season, or a few videoclips by one artist, or compare the music of three different artists in the same genre, or several articles dealing with the same topic, etc.)

You are also required to use a minimum of 3 theories/concepts covered in the course. You can combine concepts from the same author (e.g. a Marxist analysis of workplace dynamics in the fashion industry using the concepts of class, base and superstructure) or multiple authors (e.g. an analysis of racialized sports representation in X field using postcolonial lens developed by Barthes and CRT lens articulated by Fanon and Mercer. Hint: Use the notebook redux assignment to refine this component of your essay.

Please use sources, cite them in text and in a reference list. I cannot emphasize this enough. Lots of cultural studies articles build on these theories, so you need not go too far beyond the Mass Media & Communications complete OC Library database in researching your topic to find an analysis of your chosen cultural texts informed by your preferred theories.

My three sources

1. “Power relations permeate all levels of social existence and are therefore to be found operating at every site of social life – in the private spheres of family and sexuality as much as in the public sphere of politics, the economy and the law” (Michel Foucault ).

2. “How ‘Postcolonial and postmodern‘ do the process of “rationalization” of modernity cover up and suppress its internal contradictions and conflicts“

Homi K. Bhabha

3. A responsible decision must be based on knowledge: this view seems to define both the possible conditions of responsibility and the impossible conditions of such responsibility (if a decision is committed to knowledge that it can only follow or expand upon, it is no longer a responsible decision; It will be the technical operation of an episteme, it will be no more than the mechanical expansion of a theorem. “ the gift of death” Jacques Derrida