Class Notes 2/26/07

2/26/07 Notes:

By Jess Bel...

Analysis:

• Option A “Concepts of Masculinity and Femininity In the Girls Next Door”
• Break into parts:

1. “GNS” à elements of masculinity and femininity
2. Relationship between parts (i.e. character roles and how they relate)
• How the deviate from social norms; comparisons about roles and what comparisons mean to broader concepts.
• Can be used as transitions in writing
3. Look at comparison/ parts
• See how relationships relate with “whole”
• What can it tell you that you didn’t know before (Conclusion)

««« MAKE SURE BLOGS ARE CITED AND IN 2 PARTS IF IT EXCEEDS LIMITS

Research:

• Analytic pieces
• Citing an author that has done analysis
• Sites for analysis and sites to analyze

Reading, Chapter 43:

Gender, Race, Class

• Object of analysis: “Hustler”
• Because: targets “general population”, mass media, wide spread, and very raunchy
• “General population” = white, working class, males (gender + class+ race)
• Cartoons
• Racist depiction- black men with white women
• Black men- reduced to bodies
• Small head= low intelligence
• Very fit/ muscular
• Large Penis – contrast to small, thin white guys
• Hypersexual- threatening to white women, “torn up”, violently portrayed post-sex
• Threatening to white males by implication- in competition with white men for scares supply of attractive white women
• Binary
• Power vs. Powerless
• Power: reader gets to feel superior to both groups
• Powerless: at expense of Blackman and “White Trash” image

o Socio-political statement about “Hustler” cartoons

o Calls cartoons brilliant satirists (science and politics carry weight)

o Encoding sexuality through cartoon and politics white men don’t relate to “White Trash” images, so they don’t feel threatened

§ Implication of appeal

§ “Birth of A Nation” and “King Kong” preamble, but movies end and doesn’t evolve like “Hustle”

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