{"id":840,"date":"2019-08-28T09:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/?page_id=840"},"modified":"2019-08-28T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:40:15","slug":"week-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/the-postcolonial-course\/week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3: What is Authority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tue. 9\/12\u00a0<\/strong>Hannah Arendt, <em>Between Past and Future<\/em>, \u201cWhat is Authority?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imaginary Worlds Podcast, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org\/empire-vs-rebels.html\">Empire vs Rebels<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Marginalia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The goal of this assignment is to carry on a dialogue with the author in the margins. Use the margins to summarize the text, ask questions, give assent, protest vehemently\u2013\u2013don\u2019t just color the pages with a highlighter. Every time you highlight something, write out in the margins why you wanted to underline it. Why is that passage important? Is it a major new point in the argument? A significant piece of support? A summary or the opposition? A particularly strong or particularly weak point?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs. 9\/14<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Star Wars: Episode 1\u2013\u2013The Phantom Menace <\/em>(1999)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Trace a Trope\/Image <\/strong><\/span>(required Writing Center consultation: www.mywco.com\/vassar)<\/p>\n<p>Identify an image that recurs throughout these three films. List in context each instance of that trope\/image by citing the episode, approximate timestamp, and providing a quotation\/sill-frame image that captures the trope\/image. For instance, you might map the recurrence of a certain phrase or item. Perhaps your attention is caught by something much larger in scope such as irony. The choice is yours. Once you\u2019ve mapped the trope\/image, write a brief analysis (1-2 pages) of how it relates to larger motifs and themes of the prequels as a whole. Due next Thursday, 9\/21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tue. 9\/12\u00a0Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future, \u201cWhat is Authority?\u201d Imaginary Worlds Podcast, \u201cEmpire vs Rebels\u201d Marginalia The goal of this assignment is to carry on a dialogue with the author in the margins. Use the margins to summarize the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/the-postcolonial-course\/week-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"parent":738,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-840","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/840\/revisions\/877"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}