3 parts

Part 1：

Choice A: Add 600 words minimum to your Analysis Essay and fix it

For this option, you will expand upon your Analysis Essay by further analyzing “Us” or connecting it to “The Raft.” Here, you will refine your original essay by adding another point about Us or by connecting to “The Raft” to offer a fuller picture of how horror works in our society.

A Reminder of the requirements

This assignment asks you to select and analyze a “text ” from the popular media as your primary source and to analyze said primary source using a theory about the horror genre as a lens for understanding it.

The purpose of analysis (regardless of disciplinary point of view) is to explain relationships between parts and wholes—to break down the object into its constituent parts, find meaning in those parts, and then determine the meaning of the whole object. Your analysis must include a careful tracing of the meaning of those parts and how they relate to the meaning of the whole; remember the meaning of the whole is where you will at a minimum need to include and connect Foucault’s work to your primary source.

To describe it in a different manner: analyzing a work of art, musical composition, literary work, historical document, philosophical argument, or film is to explain how it "works"—how particular part(s) contribute to some whole in order to enhance understanding of the meaning of the text or artifact. Which part(s) you choose to examine depends largely on the question that you are trying to answer.

You will want to choose a small aspect of your primary source—one that you can really analyze and make a point about in 4-6 pages. Really. A small aspect like a single scene from a tv show or movie, a single verse from a song, a 30-second portion of a youtube video, and the like.

Your response to this assignment can also be a formal, conceptual, or thematic analysis that uses the tools, theories, and/or concepts privileged by a particular discipline.

Please use MLA or CMS guidelines to document your source(s). For option A, you’ll need at least 3 scholarly secondary sources.

Part 2:

In addition to your Final Analysis Essay, you will also submit a 600-900-word reflective essay. For this assignment, I will be looking for fairly polished writing and well organized thoughts; most importantly, make sure to give examples for the statements you make.

I want each of you to respond in the ways that best fit with your experiences writing this quarter. So, here are some questions to think on as you prepare to write this essay:

· What was the biggest problem you faced with either essay and how successful were you in solving it? What did you do? Give specific examples to answer this question.

· Where in your essays do you demonstrate your independent thinking and where do your mixed feelings or unresolved problems show through? Give some specific examples.

· What do you feel you learned most this quarter about writing? How does the essays demonstrate that?

· At what point did you feel you had fully developed your ideas? Clearly, this didn’t happen when you finished the conclusion and what-not. What has convinced you that you interpreted your evidence well? Give specific examples for when you felt that sense of completion.

· How has your writing changed this quarter? Has anything changed, or at least started to change since sometimes it can be a slow process?

· How does the essays demonstrate your growth as a writer overall?

· What is the one best way this final essay depicts your growth or change as a writer?

· You can also discuss other issues that you wish, but remember that this is a self -assessment.

Part 3:

One page Reading Summary of Venise1996 and Lewis1990.

We venture into the land of the early 80s with the proliferation of a new type of music called rap, as well as this novel idea of music television, linking the audible with the visual. The Lisa Lewis piece explores what representational politics meant for the producers of MTV as well as who could be “counted” in that age of marketing. Taking a little bit of a different slant, the Venise explains how Black men, the police, and music making come together in a nexus of protest politics and demonstrates how music can be a tool for immense political upheaval.

Lisa Lewis:

· For these set of questions, I’d like you to learn the difference between de jure and de facto.

· What was the de jure policy of MTV on who they were catering their channel to? In other words, who did they say they were catering towards?

· What kind of music did MTV end up airing? (Hint: in the Lisa Lewis reading, this is pre-Michael Jackson).

· What kind of messaging did this send by MTV? In other words, who did they de facto cater towards?

Venise: 

· What are the material realities for many Black men during this time period?

· What are their relationships like with the police?

· Include 1 anecdote that the author uses to demonstrate this.

· What kind of music is being produced in response to this strained relationship?

· How is the music received by “mainstream” Americans?

· How can the legacies of this music still be felt today?