October 13

Watch:

 
• Working Girls (Lizzie Borden, 1986) [93 minutes]
• Semiotics of the Kitchen (Martha Rosler, 1975) [6 minutes]
  
• Illusions (Julie Dash, 1983) [36 minutes]
  

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975) ~ watch first 30 minutes!

Read:

• Coco Fusco, “Working Girls: An Interview with Lizzie Borden,” Afterimage (December 1989)
  
• Scott MacDonald and Lizzie Borden, “Interview with Lizzie Borden,” Feminist Studies, vol. 15, no. 2 (1989)
• Kim Phillips-Fein, “Introduction,” Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Picador, 2017)
  

Please complete a first draft of your topic sheet and send it to me by 10am on Tuesday. 

Due Friday, October 16: Topic Sheet