10/13 – 10/20 Two Lane Blacktop, Family Vacation
by Dr. H - October 13th, 2015
Tues 10/13 – we will be screening (most of) the 1971 road film Two Lane Blacktop in class. Prepare by reading the Film Quarterly review posted on Blackboard.
Thurs 10/15 – The Golden Age of Family Vacations. Reading: make a first pass through the entire (short, picture-heavy) book Family Vacation. 
Dr. Rugh is a scholar of 20th-century tourism who wrote a scholarly book titled Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of Family Vacations (University of Kansas, 2008) and in her research she encountered many of these nostalgic images (maps, photographs, postcards, advertisements) and compiled them into the volume we’ll be reading. For Thursday’s class, choose a few images to discuss with your classmates.
Tues 10/20 – Golden Age of Family Vacations, Part II. Reading: Make a second pass through the Rugh book. Design and conduct a STUDY of some dimension of her primary sources: quantitative, aesthetic, ideological, iconographic, rhetorical, or any other creative method you can devise. Be ready to report on your METHOD and FINDINGS in Tuesday’s class – I will call on some people to present, but everyone should be ready to be called on.