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Unit 8: General Questions and Final
Unit Discussions
Instructions
Please choose
one of the following questions
Before answering this
unit's questions, you should read “Serial Killing in America After 9/11,” p.
244 in Natural Born Celebrities.
Keep in mind, as you
view the film, a few of the questions posted below.
Directions
Full-bodied entries—of
at least ten sentences of writing from you (in addition to quotations from the
text)—are more likely to receive full credit. Lesser credit will be assigned to
work that is missing, brief, or clearly disengaged or sloppily produced such that
miscues interfere with readability.
Your responses to
other students’ work are also assessed. Students often resist commenting on
each others’ work in substantial ways; instead choosing to post simply “good
job” or “looks okay to me.” This kind of peer response doesn’t help your own—or
your peers’—development as a writer and thinker.
Acceptable peer
responses will, among other things:
·
Explicitly identify what was learned from someone else’s work.
·
Ask a follow-up question.
·
Offer an alternative interpretation.
·
Offer concrete strategies for improvement.
Questions (Reading and
General Questions)
Choose one questions
to answer:
1.
In the final chapter from Natural Born Celebrities, Schmid
argues that the serial killer genre and the terrorist genre of films coincided
after 9/11. The co-mingling of the genres offered an opportunity for us to
associate serial killers as a foreign threat to our nation. What ties do you
see between this idea and the zombie trend in popular culture right now?
2.
Overall, what concepts about violence in the media have you
gained during the time in this course? What ideas will resonate with you after
the course ends? While most people simply consume these films and TV series as
mindless entertainment, what do you now think they are actually watching and
internalizing, if anything?
3.
If you were teaching this course, what media would you have
included in the syllabus? (Remember, the idea: How are we valorizing the serial
killer or reversing the positions of killers within pop culture.) Thoughts?