Imagery
In seminar, we discussed the idea that there are two maps, a pop-up map that you carry in your imagination, for a place and a traditional "flat" paper map which lays out the geography of a place. Intangible heritage lives inside of the maps of our imagination and is vividly marked by events, conversations, and places. In other words, home is a place and home is within, and it is a place that we occupy within ourselves and with others. Students will examine images in film, photographic essays, and in the graphic novel A.D. They will also explore the Lower 9 th Ward area of New Orleans by using Google Maps and through their pen pal exchange with a student from the area. We will discuss the images that are represented in the frames in A.D. and how they relate one to another as they are juxtaposed. Further exploring how the media images seen in National Geographic, Newsweek, BBC reports, and Spike Lee's ""When the Levees Broke"", focusing on how the emotions that they arise in the viewer. How can we examine the idea of deep time as we analyze these images? How can we explore the two maps of New Orleans, flat and that of desire? How we can we create our own "pop-up map"?
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