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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 3 — Getting personal

October 5, 2012 by Hank Stuever Leave a Comment

Just a quick recap today. I’m in Shreveport, La., for a long weekend to be a judge at the first-ever Louisiana Film Prize, where 20 short films are competing for a $50,000 win. It’s a big street party. With movies! Check it out.

Meanwhile, back in Missoula …

On Wednesday, we discussed three (almost four) personal essays the students were asked to read and mark up. The next writing assignment is a 750-1,000-word personal essay about popular culture.

Is there a movie that changed you? A TV show? A book (or series of books)? A superhero? A rock band? An album?

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Sept. 12 — writing criticism

September 13, 2012 by Hank Stuever 1 Comment

Kael. All the great critics are fond of resting their faces on their palms.

She may be the fairy godmother of all film criticism, but the work of Pauline Kael (1919-2001) went over like a lead balloon as we began our sequence of classes on criticism/reviews. (Let me just say: I remember having pretty much the same reaction when I had to read her as a college sophomore in 1987, and that was when she was still alive and crankin’ it out.)

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Sept. 10 — essay ideas

September 11, 2012 by Hank Stuever 2 Comments

At the beginning of each class, ideally to limber up our brains, I randomly ask the roundtable of students to verbally “tweet out” a thought about something they’ve seen or done or had a mental blip about since we last met. (I totally, totally stole this idea from American University writing prof/lecturer Glenn Moomau, whose nonfiction class I spoke to last spring.) What I’m trying to get them to do is blurt out something they’ve noticed. It can be pop culture or not. If you’re on Twitter a lot, you know how quickly your brain converted to the 140-character thought-scoop or laugh line. We give these away for free. That’s just how it is.

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