Previous Schedule

**Daily Class Videos Posted Here By 9am the day of class.

**UPDATE: All Assignments are Due by 11pm the day after they are assigned (Example: a Homework posted on Monday is due Tuesday by 11pm, Homework posted on Friday is due Monday by 11pm).

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Week 1: Introduction and Theory (6/22-6/28)

Monday’s Class (6/22):

Topic: Introduction to the Class

Homework:

1.Sign-Up for Podcast Discussion Day

2. Fill out this Survey

3. Tell me what times you could Zoom to have a small class discussion or individual discussions with me (just take this week as a generic week in the summer for you): https://www.when2meet.com/?9276112-YX5Pf

**PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD WITH INDESIGN AND PREMIER PRO INSTALLED. https://sa.unc.edu/shop/home/?searchterm=Adobe%20Creative%20Cloud

How to Post to Forums:

Tuesday’s Class (6/23):

Topic: What is Adaptation?

**Powerpoint in Dropbox

ACTIVITY

Google Document

Homework:

  1. Read: Chapter 1: The_Theory_of_Narrative_Causality.pdf Jamison, Anne. Fic: Why fanfiction is taking over the world. BenBella Books, Inc., 2013.
  2. Post in Forums: How would you define is Fanfiction? What do you think is the difference between Fanfiction and adaptation?

–You can respond in forums in many different ways. One way is to use our class instagram: @fanfiction_sum 2 pass: fanfictionr0ck$ or you can post to our forums on this website. If you have another method, I would be open to that as well!

Wednesday’s Class (6/24):

Topic: Death of the Author

Instead of watching me, watch: Lindsay Ellis, “Death of the Author” 

 

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Find a Twitter of an author you like and collect their tweets:

**USE THIS LINK!Only one person at a time (try to look if someone is using the sheet)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AnU3dxehgMJNvK_BRwLg2LskPvvGmlSVws7A-x3yuRM/edit?usp=sharing

Was there a point where fans and authors clashed? Place the tweet in this google sheet

 

Homework:

  1. Read: Cornel Sandvoss, “The Death of the Reader? : Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture”The_Fan_Fiction_Studies_Reader
    in The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, edited by Karen Hellekson, and Kristina Busse, University of Iowa Press, 2014
  2. Post in Forums: Find a short fan fiction (or just a portion of a longer one) and talk about what it changes about the source text.

Thursday’s Class (6/25):

Topic: What is Fanfiction?

Part 1:

Part 2:

Activity: Think about what fanfiction you want to write or write on, take the time to explore some of the links of the lefthand side.  OR do yesterday’s activity!

Homework:

  1. Read: “Introduction: Five Things That Fanfiction Is, And One Thing It Isn’t” 9780472122783.pdf Coppa, Francesca, ed. The Fanfiction Reader: Folk tales for the digital age. University of Michigan Press, 2017.
  2. Post in Forums by 11:59pm-Any lingering questions you have from this week.

Friday’s Class (6/26):

Topic: What is the difference between Adaptation and Fanfiction?

Part 1:

Part 2:

ACTIVITY: Find an older, published work that would be considered fanfiction today (hint: look at Olympia press).

GOOGLE DOC

 

Homework:

  1. Read “When Fandom Clashes with IP Law” By: Madhavi Sunder https://hbr.org/2019/07/when-fandom-clashes-with-ip-law
  2. Post in Forums: What is your understanding of Copyright as it relates to fanfiction? Can you think of a work that might be violating Copyright law?

By Monday:  Select a fanfiction that you want to create or a write about. EMAIL ME (grantg@live.unc.edu) your ideas. 

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Week 2:  IP and Visual Narrative (6/29-7/3)

Monday’s Class (6/29):

Topic: Intellectual Property Rights

Activity: Read Through this document and add an example to the activity at the end of the document.

Homework:

  1. Post in Forums: Find a case of intellectual property infringement and briefly describe the case.
  2. Watch” NerdWriter1 “How Marvelman Changed Superheroes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yZwh_gCIU

BONUS VIDEO:

Tuesday’s Class (6/30):

Topic: The Medium is the Message

Activity: Make a copy of this google document, read it, and complete all the  activities. Email me a copy of your completed document (grantg@live.unc.edu).

 

Homework:

1.Post in Forums: What do you find uneasy about navigating IP?

2. Watch: The Case for Fan Fiction (feat. Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes) | It’s Lit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdDIMOehLm8)

Wednesday’s Class (7/1):

Topic: Learning how to Create Cover Art

 

Homework:

  1. Begin work on Cover Art (https://engl149summer2020.web.unc.edu/feeders/)
  2. Post in Forums: Close read an existing fan fiction cover. (How to close read)

Thursday’s Class (7/2):

Topic: Visual Art and Fan Fiction

Homework:

  1. Feeder 1: Complete your remix cover art for your video by 11:59pm tonight.
  2. Read: Chapter 6 (pages 123-142) 9781317572213 Sanders, J., Drakakis, J. (2016). Adaptation and Appropriation. London: Routledge,

 

Friday’s Class (7/3): NO Class HOLIDAY

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Week 3:  Fanfiction and the Internet (7/6-7/10)

Monday’s Class (7/6):

Topic: Historical Fiction and Fanfiction

Watch: Catherine Gallagher “Telling it Like It Wasn’t”

Homework:

  1. Read: Mackie, Penelope and Jago, Mark, “Transworld Identity”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/identity-transworld/>.
  2. Post in Forums: Can you think of a work that uses Transworld Identity? Why do you think it does this?

Tuesday’s Class (7/7):

Topic: Web-scraping and Textual Analysis

Lecture:

Activity:

Easy: https://voyant-tools.org

Having trouble Copying/Pasting from websites? Watch this:

 

Difficult: https://www.parsehub.com/quickstart

Tableau: https://calendar.lib.unc.edu/event/4292693 

UNC Data Visualization:

http://learndataviz.web.unc.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

*****Copy/Paste your results from the activity here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t-21e7W02GuG0g25zj21SDWS8bU3qHxFEy7b9VHVv5k/edit?usp=sharing

Homework:

  1. Read: Chapter 2, “Methods” Fathallah, Judith. Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts. , 2017. Print. 1004097.pdf
  2. Post in Forums: How would you use Fathallah’s method to look at your chosen fanfiction?

Wednesday’s Class (7/8):

Topic: Fanfiction and the Internet

Watch Video: Why Fanfiction in the internet age is viewed as illegitimate: **warning there is some strong language from early 2000s internet trolls. However, this is an important story about the internet and fanfiction communities.

Alternative Video: **if you want to avoid strong language, please watch this video instead.

Or you can watch both! No activity today!

Homework:

  1. Collect Images for your Storyboard (at least 3) and Create at least 3 talking points or plot points.
  2. Post in Forums by 11:59pm-Any lingering questions you have from this week.

Thursday’s Class (7/9):

Topic: Storyboard

  1. Create your own storyboard
  2. Post your Draft to Forums by 11:59pm tonight (Thursday, 7/9/20)