Incorporating Fahrenheit 451 in a Multimodal Way

Lindsey Cox

Important Thematic Concepts:

Censorship Upsetting the status quo (destructive

versus peaceful attempts) Propaganda Government control Entertainment as a form of

submission

Censorship

Censorship within social media:

PayPal attempts to censor literature Video News article

Twitter may censor tweets to please other countries Video

Censorship: a musical perspective

“Not Ready to Make Nice”- The Dixie Chicks

“And how in the world can the words that I saidSend somebody so over the edge

That they’d write me a letter sayin’ that I betterShut up and sing or my life would be over”

Music videoLyrics

News Story

Upsetting the Status Quo

Peaceful vs. Destructive

Peaceful: Step Up Revolution A dance flash-mob

transforms their work from performance art to protest art in order to fight a large corporation that is trying to take over their family’s town

Movie Preview

Destructive: Fight Club To fight social,

commercial, and capitalistic tyranny, a man creates Project Mayhem to take down the system. The end result is total destruction of all credit card companies’ buildings as seen in this video.

Propaganda

Election Campaign Ads:

Big Oil attacks Obama Presenting only one side of the story Check the facts

Obama for America NRSC.org Campaign Ad

Government Control

YA novels

Candor by Candace Bachorz (book trailer)

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (synopsis)

Feed by M.T. Anderson The Hunger Games by Suzanne

Collins

“So I still have a chance, though. Funny, in the arena, when I poured out those berries, I was only thinking of outsmarting the Gamemakers, not how my actions would reflect on the Capitol. But the Hunger Games are their weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it. So now the Capitol will act as if they've been in control the whole time. As if they orchestrated the whole event, right down to the double suicide. But that will only work if I play along with them.”- The Hunger Games

Entertainment As a Form of Submission

Movie Clips:

V for Vendetta: V takes over the television to deliver his message. Video

Wall E: Handheld technologies transform humans into lazy, mindless consumers. Video

Song Lyrics:

“The Sum of a Body”- Ray Koefoed Video with lyrics

“Teach us what to think, while you've got us sitting still.We do whatever it takes to get that dollar bill.Can you see the price tags hanging from our free will?Well you will.

Was there something more that I was supposed to be,than an indentured servant shackled to my T.V.?I've been waiting patiently for somebody to set me free”