Singin' in the rain

From Avalon Roberts: "As we were discussing code-switching in the homework assignments, I was reminded of this movie. I think that code-switching is something that everyone does to varying degrees regardless of race or occupation. This is a clip from the play-turned-into-movie "Singin' In the Rain." A silent film actress is trying to transition to being a star in movies with sound. The producer is making her go to diction lessons to try to change her way of speaking to match her demeanor. Spoiler: she fails."

Family Guy - Cmon , Do Math

From Stephen Chin. He writes:

It's a clip from Family Guy, where Peter recalls how he took his math
tests during high school. The clip parodies a common Asian stereotype that
all Asians are excellent at math, a stereotype I often find myself
subjected to living with white roommates.

"Job Interviews" Step Brothers

Natasha Goff:

This video clip from the movie "Step Brothers" shows the importance of interview etiquette. Brennon and Dale are dressed totally inappropriately for their job interviews, they are completely over confident, insult their interviewer and on top of all of that, they interview as a team. They obviously don't get any o the jobs...

Stereotypes

This is from Kevin Lau-fang

I feel this image is very related to this week's topic. Similar to the

reading “Holiday Advertisers Seek Coveted Dicktard Demographic”, this

image shows how people in this nation are stereotyped (in a less satirical

way). However, stereotypes are just way people perceive others based on

appearance and in fact most of the times they are false and offensive.

Day After Thanksgiving Insanity

Heyan Chen:
This video is about an electronic store's black friday commercial, I found this interesting because their tone of how much you can save on black fridays. This is relate to the article of next week "Holiday Advertisers Seek Coveted Dicktard Demographic” . How big companies attract more and more consumers to buy before holidays and during holidays. Those commercials sounds very tempting. I will want to buy a TV at 30% off, even though I don't need it. But if i don't get it now, I feel I will lose the opportunity.

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/27243869

Kristina Karayan: This is a video about a guy who traveled around the world and this short-film is documenting food. Since he is actually trying bizarre dishes unique to each country he is in, I believe it validates the authenticity of his experience.

Anton Ego eats Ratatouille

Dami Oh writes: According to Bourdian's reading, chapter 14, the author claims that reviews of food bloggers or critics can be fatal to operate a restaurant in terms of authority. Also, these reviews are mostly not objective opinions. In my opinion, When Anton Ego eat Ratatouille which the recipe came from 'the rat' chef, the dish remind him of his mother's dish. in this sense, i think it has to do with 'authenticity.'