Our Tuesday afternoon outing began in the plaza next to the museum entrance. Here are some early arrivals.
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The Autry National
Center is an appropriate place for a Mass Comm 101 field trip. It
compares the media version of the American West with the actual West.
Our Tuesday afternoon outing began in the plaza next to the museum entrance. Here are some early arrivals.
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The Autry does a good job of pointing out that much
of what we think we know about the 19th Century American West actually comes
from Western movies and other media that was constructed to entertain us rather
than teach us history. This scene, which looks to be straight out of a western
movie, was actually near the interchange of two major freeways.
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These MC101s found a gallery that depicts the lives
of Native Americans in the American West.
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The Autry does a good job of pointing out that the actual American West contained numerous ethnic communities that rarely were depicted in Western entertainment. This dragon is also part of the exhibit on the Chinese community in Los Angeles. |
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We looked at artifacts from the actual American West.
It was hard to tell them from the movie props. For example, is this a real whiskey bottle, or is it a prop designed to be harmlessly broken over someone's head during a bar fight scene? (It's real) |
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Some MC101s congregated on the lower
level to work through their field trip assignment. [BACK TO THE MASS COMM 101 FIELD TRIP PAGE] |