Unit VI: IDEOLOGY OF THE WHITE CITY: The Chicago World’s Fair, Utopias and Dystopias
- Part One: The White City and the World’s Fair
- WRITTEN TEXTS:
- Chapter 4, The Urban Experience
- FILM/VIDEO TEXTS:
- Slides of Chicago’s World’s Fair
Resources on Chicago World’s Fair:
World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 at Paul V. Galvin Library Digital History Collection- Study Guide Part One
- DISCUSSION TOPIC: Architecture and Cultural Values: Reading the World's Fair
- Part Two: White Utopias and the Racial Coding of Urban Film
- WRITTEN TEXTS:
- Giroux, "White Utopias and Nightmare Realities: Film and the New Cultural Racism," in Disturbing Pleasures
- FILM/VIDEO TEXT:
- Lawrence Kasdan, Grand Canyon (1992); Resources on Grand Canyon
- Study Guide Part Two
- DISCUSSION TOPIC: Coding Race in Urban Melodrama; "Folks Like Us" Under Siege
- Study Guide for Unit VI Readings and AudioVisuals
- 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) (Extra to Part One)
- Part Three: Multicultural Dystopics and the Urban Future (Optional Section)
- WRITTEN TEXTS:
- 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
- FILM/VIDEO TEXT:
- Ridley Scott, Blade Runner; Resources on Blade Runner
- Study Guide for Optional Part Three