Week Fourteen: Curate the Lockdown

The movie still above is from The Wild Women of Wongo, (1958) not a great movie but fabulous for capturing a representation of Florida as an exotic paradise in the late 1950s.  Visible in the picture above is the use of The Coral Castle, a well-known tourist attraction just South of Miami and still in operation. The Castle was the work of a single artisan and is a masterpiece of outsider art well worth visiting after the lockdown is over.  You can get a virtual taste of it in this movie.  Be prepared for massive stereotype of gender roles that are interestingly subverted by the representations of Female Domination as an erotic element that are especially an element in the film's final reel.  You can stream this on Amazon as well as other services.  If you stream it on Shout Factory (you can get a 30 day free trial as a Prime Video channel) you can view it with commentary from The Film Crew, a short-lived successor to the original MST 3000. They still make bad movies but they don't make them with as much purity of intent as this movie has. Best with riffing commentary. ?You could watch with friends and make jokes via twitter.

Here is a link to a small collection of COVID street art.

Here is a link to Annarasumanara a great Korean Manhwa on Webtoons

Here is a link to free Studio Ghibli backgrounds for Zoom conferencing

For the last assignment of the semester I am asking you provide a list of media with which to survive the COVID-19 lockdown.  This can be streaming titles you think are great but that we might have missed,  songs we shouldn't miss, books or comics we might read...any media that can be consumed at home and that we might get through subscription or (even better) for free.

Post your curated collection of lockdown media on the discussion section of the Canvas site for this course.  Please avoid the popular or obvious choices, we can get that direction elsewhere, durate for us works/events we might not consider or that are unusual but great.  We are looking for you to lead us to a lost or hidden treasure.  

During the last class discussion we will discuss the act of curation and what elements go into selecting and curating works of media.

Next Monday is the last day to submit work.  Please reply to my final grade email and the questions I am asking before Tuesday, May 5, the last day of the semester.  In your email please indicate what class you are in because I will be receiving emails from all of my classes and it will help me keep things straight.

Here is a quiz you can take to find out what kind of sushi you are:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/fadhilahafra/what-kind-of-sushi-are-you-7lv9xdqmwn?origin=web-hf

In case you are wondering, I am Spicy Tuna Roll.