STUDY GUIDE Unit VI: IDEOLOGY OF THE WHITE CITY: The Chicago World’s Fair, Utopias and Dystopias
   Part One * Part Two  *
(OPTIONAL) Extras:   Part Three       

Part One: The White City and the World’s Fair
    Reading Questions:  Chapter 4, The Urban Experience, Urban Life: The Social Setting
    Audiovisual Guide Questions: Slides of Chicago's World’s Fair; See: World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 at Paul V. Galvin Library Digital History Collection

Part Two: White Utopias and the Racial Coding of Urban Film
     Reading Questions: Henry A. Giroux, "White Utopias and Nightmare Realities: Film and the New Cultural Racism," in Disturbing Pleasures
    Audiovisual Guide Questions: Lawrence Kasdan, Grand Canyon (1992) (opening scenes)

EXTRA RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE AMBITIOUS:
     Lauren Rabinowitz, "The Fair View: The 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition," (Ch 2) in For The Love of Pleasure (On Gender, Spectacle, Film, and the White City)
Part Three: Multicultural Dystopics and the Urban Future

    Reading Questions: Scott Bukattman, "Blade Runner," pp. 7- 12, 42-65 (BFI Modern Classics); Julian Bleecker, "Urban Crisis: Past, Present, and Virtual," in Socialist Review Vol. 24:1 & 2, 1995
    Audiovisual Guide Questions: Ridley Scott, Blade Runner; (esp. sequences in flying car)

Slides of Chicago's World’s Fair

Chapter 4, The Urban Experience, Urban Life: The Social Setting Giroux, "White Utopias and Nightmare Realities: Film and the New Cultural Racism," in Disturbing Pleasures Please return to the remaining questions only after screening the opening 10 minutes of the film:

EXTRA MATERIALS

Scott Bukattman, "Blade Runner," pp. 7- 12, 42-65 (BFI Modern Classics) Julian Bleecker, "Urban Crisis: Past, Present, and Virtual," in Socialist Review Vol. 24:1 & 2, 1995 Ridley Scott, Blade Runner Lauren Rabinowitz, "The Fair View: The 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition," (Ch 2) in For The Love of Pleasure (On Gender, Spectacle, Film, and the White City)