Protecting Your Kids (and Yourself) from the One-Eyed Media Monsters
with Barbara Graves
Are you ready to take entertainment seriously? Television, the internet, video games, song lyric streaming through iPods® and MP3 technology, even the packaging of news as entertainment… no question, the messages are everywhere. But what do they mean?
Join us as we examine the role of media in our culture and raise provocative questions about how entertainment sells ideas and values. Using selected readings, thought-provoking videos, and some hands-on exercises with visual images in media from print to toys to electronic media and beyond, we’ll heighten your awareness, hone your critical eye, and arm you with the tools to guard your children and yourself against the dangers of the messages that bombard us in our daily lives.
Sessions: Three, 90-minute meetings
When: Tuesdays January 29, February 5 & 12
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Cost: $150
Register at least two weeks before your class first meets.
Barbara Graves taught at Greenhill from 1980 until retiring this past June. She completed a Ph.D. in English, with emphasis on the interactions of literature, art, and history, from the University of Oklahoma.
Her personal academic passions remain contemporary poetry, literature and pop culture, and the philosophical and social implications of language in all its forms.
For questions, contact Christine Eastus at afterdark@greenhill.org, or by phone at (972) 628-5441.