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101917 Representing Everyday Life in Literary and Visual Cultures Assignment - Western Sydney University, Australia
INSTRUCTIONS:
Write a 1500-word essay on one of the topics below.
You must develop an argument in relation to the topic. So even if the question directs you to 'discuss' a topic, you must develop a thesis (an argument, a position, an approach) in relation to that topic and support it with relevant examples from the primary text as well as ideas from your selected secondary sources. Remember to use the Chicago (Humanities) referencing style or MLA, and to reference all sources including lecture material.
In this essay you must engage with a minimum of two secondary sources (i.e. further readings). Secondary sources can include: prescribed critical and theoretical material (e.g. essays by Lefebvre, Highmore, Felski, Friedan, Bauman); scholarly books, book chapters and journal articles (including those I recommend in my weekly lecture slides).
WRITE AN ESSAY ON ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:
1. "Here we don't die, we shop. But the difference is less marked than you think." (Murray, White Noise, 38). Using Murray's comment as a starting point, explore the relationship between consumer culture and everyday life in one of the following texts: Things: A Story of the Sixties, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, White Noise or Being John Malkovich.
2. Paying close attention to film techniques in your response (e.g. acting styles, setting, mise-en-scène), discuss how gender is portrayed as a daily performance or act in the film Revolutionary Road.
3. In "Simulacra and Simulations," Jean Baudrillard argues that since the late twentieth century the distinction between reality and its representation (i.e. image, copy) has broken down. Examine the role of the simulacra/simulation in either Don DeLillo's account of everyday life in White Noise (focusing on three examples from the novel) or Spike Jonze's film Being John Malkovich.
4. This semester we have seen that everyday life is the space within which social norms are reinscribed and reproduced. With this statement in mind, explore the theme of social conformity and individual resistance in either Revolutionary Road or Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
5. Lefebvre argues that "we work to earn our leisure, and leisure has only one meaning: to get away from work. A vicious circle" (Critique of Everyday Life, in Highmore 234). Discuss Lefebvre's view of the work-leisure relationship in one of the following texts: Things: A Story of the Sixties, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning or Revolutionary Road.
6. "So what do a couple of people like you have to run away from?" (John, Revolutionary Road) "We can put you inside someone else's body for fifteen minutes" (Craig, Being John Malkovich). Discuss the theme of escape and/or escapism as it relates to representations of everyday life in one of the following texts: Revolutionary Road, Things: A Story of the Sixties, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, White Noise or Being John Malkovich.
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