Part 1: Explain and define your alternative medium. Select a medium that is NOT television or film. This section must explain in detail the
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Part 1: Explain and define your alternative medium.
- Select a medium that is NOT television or film.
- This section must explain in detail the formal qualities of your medium.
o You do not need to list every single formal quality of your medium, but please describe
some of the key ones
o Think of our chapter on film vocabulary (mise en scene, lighting, editing, etc.). What are
some of the vocabulary of your medium?
o You may define these in-text or you may list them like a glossary, but I will be looking for
your use of these terms in your paper.
- You may, additionally, describe your topic is an alternative medium per other criteria.
o e.g. “Mosh pits are a kind of dance, but they are also their own medium because…”
o You must base your argument in the formal qualities of your medium.
o Scholarly resources and/or interviews will be needed to support these claims.
Part 2: Do a semiotic analysis of a text from your alternative medium.
- You may do this analysis on a text from the medium itself OR of a representation of that medium.
o e.g. you may analyze a specific experience of being in a mosh pit OR a mosh pit as it’s
represented in a different medium, like the documentary The Decline of Western
Civilization
- I expect your analysis to use the vocabulary we have learned in class.
o e.g. signifiers, connotation/denotation, codes, myths.
- An example of a strong semiotic analysis can be found here:
https://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/semiotics_and_ads/jr…
Part 3: Do an ideological reading of your text.
- Is your text ideologically dominant or radical? Or something else? (e.g. subversive,
propagandistic)
o Use your semiotic analysis to support your claim.
- What power structures are being maintained or naturalized? Which ones are being challenged?
How?
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