Choose a pop culture text (movie, TV program, song, cartoon, comic strip, or advertisement) that you are interested in analyzing through a dramatistic perspective (see chapter 4 in our textbook). In 2-3 minutes, present your text to the class on 1/31 (presentations might continue on 2/2). For this presentation, briefly describe the text of your choice. Tell us why you have chosen to analyze it. Identify the five elements of the pentad in the text:
*Act
*Agent
*Agency
*Scene
*Purpose
Also identify what seems to be featured as the main point of the drama--e.g., what have been offered as reasons for the behavior. What is justified in what ways? Etc.
Note that you don't have to write a complete analysis yet; this will serve as an exploratory prewriting assignment for your upcoming essay using a dramatistic perspective (Essay #1). The presentations and a preliminary discussion of artifacts are also part of the process. During the presentations, class members may provide suggestions to others and get ideas about their own work.
***All blog post assignments are due by the beginning of the class period on the due date stated in the blog title.
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