DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM, COMMUNICATION & NEW MEDIA CMNS 3160-01 Media, Entertainment & Popular Culture—Indigenous Representations in Media, Entertainment, and Popular Culture CLOSE READING ASSIGNMENT DEFINITION • In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of material (text, advertisement, television episode, film, etc.). A close reading is a study of the detail in a short section of material. It is an explanation of how that detail and that section are related to the entire piece of material. In thinking about literature, film, articles, you should always refer back to the detail of a test as well as to its larger effects and meanings. This assignment requires critical thinking and concise writing. TOPIC & PREWRITING PROCESS • Wyndreth Berginsdottir wrote, recorded, and published a song—’I am My Mother’s Savage Daughter’—that has been used by many Indigenous peoples across TikTok. Select one of the listed TikTok short videos relying upon Berginsdottir’s song and close read it. Meaning— • Re-watch it, taking notes while viewing. Look for tensions, twists, how it unfolds. Consider is the individual singing on their own or lip-synching (does this matter to you?). • Consider something that stands out—perhaps it is the movement between contemporary and traditional clothing; perhaps, it is the application of face-paint, perhaps it’s the braiding of the hair, and so on. • Consider how what you have chosen to analyse works on literal and symbolic levels. Consider doe sit affect your emotions or intellect or understanding of the story that is being told? • Pay attention to details. WRITING PROCESS & GUIDLINES • Indicate clearly what piece of material you’re discussing. • Create a title that captures the heart of your close-reading. 1 • Open your first paragraph by briefly summarizing the material. Note its significance; refer to the creator of the short video; consider if it creates an uneasiness, a contradiction, a countermovement to the status quo. • • In a second paragraph choose to discuss and focus upon any one of the following o Theme o Details o Style o Structure o Progress/movement o Symbols At the close of your second paragraph, you might consider a conclusion that indicates a broader connection between the close-reading done in your second paragraph to the observations you made in your first. • In your third paragraph, open up your discussion on grander potential meanings from this short video which is part of a larger movement. FORMAT • 2 pages minimum to a maximum of 3 pages not including a title page or bibliography • MLA, APA, or another documenting style guide used within the fields of the Humanities • No outside sources are necessary or required MATERIAL (select one TikTok video) • https://www.tiktok.com/@tiamiscihk/video/6880361178397232389?lang=en • https://www.tiktok.com/@samm_bamm32/video/6969746832159149317?lang=en • https://www.tiktok.com/@chrishawn.blackeagle/video/7032094937105599790?lang=en • https://www.tiktok.com/@kaylen_lomayestewa/video/6852420071793511686?is_copy_url=1& is_from_webapp=v1&q=i%20am%20my%20mothers%20savage%20daughter%20native&t=16420 18277259 • https://www.tiktok.com/@tionashayla/video/6974381903889714437?is_copy_url=1&is_from_ webapp=v1&q=i%20am%20my%20mothers%20savage%20daughter%20native&t=1642018277259 • https://www.tiktok.com/@to.xx.ic/video/6989811169745849605?is_copy_url=1&is_from_web app=v1&q=i%20am%20my%20mothers%20savage%20daughter%20native&t=1642018277259 2 • https://www.tiktok.com/@tiamiscihk/video/6888522326229486853 3 Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: women in society Popular Culture Based Song Wyndreth Berginsdottir User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.