If you've got gobs and gobs of time on your hands, maybe you might like to check out these crazy essays I wrote for my Media Theory & Design I course.
Media theory is basically all about tearing apart every form of media, from movies to books to Internet memes, and applying crackpot theories that need not be appropriate or relevant to the subject. In short, it's your typical B-S college course that uses a lot of high-falootin' language and is convinced that EVERY SINGLE THING in life has something to do with a Marxist social-economic class structure.
However, my professor is a really cool dude who also is a really big anime fan, so I felt comfortable using Ghost in the Shell in my papers. The two essays I have here are my second project and final project.
Project 2 – GitS: SAC & 2nd Gig: Here, I try to use GitS to discuss intertextuality, semiotics in cinema, and Marxism in literature. I end up doing my own thing with it, though, and talk about the social message about Japan. (I got an A+ on this one!
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Man and Machine: One Ghost and No Shell: (Note: This is, like, four megs in size.) My final project for the course. This ended up being nine pages in teeny font, and I could have kept going (I wanted to talk about Batou and Kuze), but I was already late to class and needed to get there to turn it in. The simplest way to describe what this paper is about is that it has something to do with man's identity crisis due to technology and the "next step" in evolution. Some other stuff, too. My brain is still reeling from this essay!
It would mean a lot to me if you took a gander at these and told me what you thought. Thank you, comrades!
Media theory is basically all about tearing apart every form of media, from movies to books to Internet memes, and applying crackpot theories that need not be appropriate or relevant to the subject. In short, it's your typical B-S college course that uses a lot of high-falootin' language and is convinced that EVERY SINGLE THING in life has something to do with a Marxist social-economic class structure.
However, my professor is a really cool dude who also is a really big anime fan, so I felt comfortable using Ghost in the Shell in my papers. The two essays I have here are my second project and final project.
Project 2 – GitS: SAC & 2nd Gig: Here, I try to use GitS to discuss intertextuality, semiotics in cinema, and Marxism in literature. I end up doing my own thing with it, though, and talk about the social message about Japan. (I got an A+ on this one!
)Man and Machine: One Ghost and No Shell: (Note: This is, like, four megs in size.) My final project for the course. This ended up being nine pages in teeny font, and I could have kept going (I wanted to talk about Batou and Kuze), but I was already late to class and needed to get there to turn it in. The simplest way to describe what this paper is about is that it has something to do with man's identity crisis due to technology and the "next step" in evolution. Some other stuff, too. My brain is still reeling from this essay!
It would mean a lot to me if you took a gander at these and told me what you thought. Thank you, comrades!