{"id":126,"date":"2015-10-13T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/?p=126"},"modified":"2015-10-16T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T21:06:36","slug":"1013-1020-two-lane-blacktop-family-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/1013-1020-two-lane-blacktop-family-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/13 &#8211; 10\/20 Two Lane Blacktop, Family Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tues 10\/13<\/strong> &#8211; we will be screening (most of) the 1971 road film <em>Two Lane Blacktop<\/em> in class. Prepare by reading the <em>Film Quarterly<\/em> review posted on Blackboard.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/review_blog_TWO-LANE_BLACKTOP.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs 10\/15<\/strong> &#8211; The Golden Age of Family Vacations. Reading: make a first pass through the entire (short, picture-heavy) book <em>Family Vacation<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/51YmSuFtJlL._AC_UL115_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/51YmSuFtJlL._AC_UL115_.jpg\" alt=\"51YmSuFtJlL._AC_UL115_\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-128\" \/><\/a>Dr. Rugh is a scholar of 20th-century tourism who wrote a scholarly book titled <em>Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of Family Vacations<\/em> (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&#8217;ll be reading. For Thursday&#8217;s class, choose a few images to discuss with your classmates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tues 10\/20<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0WK9tfnXMiw\">&#8211;<\/a> 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&#8217;s class &#8211; I will call on some people to present, but everyone should be ready to be called on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tues 10\/13 &#8211; 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 &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}