We Love Media Criticism

-that I need to wake up earlier for class. No but seriously, as everyone else said, I learned a lot from this class. Semiotics was hard and ...

What I learned for this class... I learned that now I am incapable of watching a television show without seeing it through a gender lens, es...

I learned a lot of things from this class. Because the majority of the articles that we read tended to focus on familiar television shows an...

I have to say that although Intro. to Media Crit. was a bit of a struggle for me, I honestly learned the most from it than any of my other c...

After taking this course, walking down the streets of New York City will never be the same. I find myself wanting to engage in a discussion ...

This semester I not only learned the fundamentals of semiotic analysis, representation and all tools related to media criticism, but I learn...

What have I learned this semester? Well, obviously not time management, as I'm writing this post on a break from my final paper. In more...

seriously.. cannot believe that the semester is OVER?! I still think we just started it... maaan, time flies way too fast. It was definitely...

I can't believe the semester is over..it went by way too fast! But yayy for christmas :) Media Crit is truly one of my favorite classes ...

I learned some of the basic ideas from Ted Magder's Intro to Media Studies, but the concepts were developed further in this Media Critic...

I know I have learned a lot in this media class because I can't watch a television show, movie, commercial, music video, anything withou...

I definitely feel that I have come away from this class learning a lot; I have definitely gained a much greater understanding on how to an...

I do feel like I've taken a lot away from this class. Most specifically how to write better papers. My thesis statements are much more d...

Oh no! I just realized that there was an error and my blog post never went through. Let's try this again. Sorry.. Things I liked: - Alic...

It’s after four, so this might be a little short. But hopefully (if I wake up tomorrow) I’ll expand on this. Despite my reservations about t...

This class this semester was truthfully one of my favorites. The way the class was designed with discussion-based learning was...

I definitely enjoyed this class. I have to say that it was one of my favorite classes this semester, and definitely one of the favorite clas...

Overall, I genuinely enjoyed myself in this class, and learned a whole lot too. And this is most likely an echo, but the class blog was a g...

Good things: -engaging discussions -use of both text book definitions and modern examples to teach concepts -the blog instead of blackboard ...

Not to be a kiss ass (excuse my language), but this class ties with History of Architecture for my favorite class this semester. Of my thre...

I'm proud of that. I really liked this class because the discussions and topics covered were really very interesting. Although I must ad...

As a transfer student I was nervous to start my first semester at NYU. Being a communications major I have taken other media classes at my p...

As a required introductory course, I really enjoyed this class. I found all of the readings and lectures to be very interesting. The class c...

As a Gallatin student, I had no idea what to expect from this course. I chose it because of subject matter that seemed interesting, plus tim...

I liked... -blogging (versus printing &/or Blackboard) -comments/interaction -Professor Alice Marwick -being given 3 days of unquestione...

Well, it's safe to say, "I LOVED MEDIA CRITICISM!" Haha I really did though. I have to agree with "Bob," underneath ...

I really enjoyed this class this semester and it definitely made going to class at 930 slightly easier. My favorite thing about it was def...

These post reminded me of a promotional site TBS launched a few years back in an attempt to brand themselves as a "comedy network."...

If you guys know the character of Toby on The Office, then you will find this video to be really funny and very-well done. Toby, in this tra...

To add to the other examples of vids that recut movies to create alternate trailers that are humorous because they make it seem like the mov...

McIntosh and Coppa both claim that the art of 'fan vidding' is used to send critical messages about specific media texts. We are li...

Remember the heart-warming movie, Mrs. Doubtfire, about the father who, after losing a custody battle over his kids, resorts to dressing up ...

After the cliff-hanging season 2 finale of the O.C. where Trey (Ryan’s brother) dies, many spoofs emerged. One of the most fa...

So as everybody has already mentioned in their posts, Coppa's article talks about the vids that are clips from the movies, put together,...

According to Francesca Coppa, vidding is a form of grassroots film making that which puts together scenes from either movies or television a...

Before this reading, I had never heard of a “vid” before, nor am I sure I am aware of what the term actually means. However, in Francesca ...

After reading in Francesca Coppa's article that most " vidders make an infinite variety of arguments about the television shows and...

I found another well done mash-up, of (Pixar's) Toy Story with (Darren Aronofsky's) Requiem for a Dream by Mike Hindes . And it'...

First of all, that Buffy vs. Edward video was amazing and very smart. The vid artist did an excellent job on juxtaposing Buffy, the strong i...

After reading Coppa’s article, Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding I must say that I was honestly quite surpr...

In our final (!) reading, Coppa describes vidding as: " a form of grassroots filmmaking in which clips from television shows and movies...

In Francesca Coppa's "Theory: Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding," she defines vidding as "a ...