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 ### Course schedule
 #### Week 1: Introductions 
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 * No guides.
 * We will discuss this, and other, course documents.
 * Scott Richmond, "On the Impersonality of Experience," from _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_
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 * Stanley Cavell, "Music Discomposed," from _Must We Mean What We Say?_
 
 #### Week 2: Cinema, or the invention of modern life 
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 * No guides. Scott demos guiding.
 * Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility," "Experience and Poverty," and "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," from _Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings_
 * Susan Buck-Morss, "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered," _October_ 62 (1992).
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 * _Screening_: Dziga Vertov, _Man with a Movie Camera_ (USSR, 1929, 68 min.)
 
 #### Week 3: The culture industry and the critique of instrumental reason 
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 * Guides TBD.
 * Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Concept of Enlightenment" and "Enlightenment as Mass Deception: The Culture Industry," from _Dialectic of Enlightenment_
 * Theodor Adorno, "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening," from _The Culture Industry_
 * _Musical listening_: some Western art and pop music: Bach, Beethoven, Glass, Lucier; Donna Summer, Lady Gaga, Chappel Roan (approx. 90 minutes, with discussion)
 
 #### Week 4: Politics and the unconscious 
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 * Guides TBD.
 * Jacques Lacan, the Mirror Stage essay, from _Écrits_
 * Jean-Louis Baudry, "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus," _Film Quarterly_ 28.2 (1974-75)
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 * _Screening_: Howard Hawks, _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ (USA, 1953, 91 mins.)
 
 #### Week 5: The cinematic body 
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 * Guides TBD.
 * Roland Barthes, "Leaving the Movie Theater," from _The Rustle of Language_
 * Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness," from _Black Skin, White Masks_
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 * _Screening_: Kathryn Bigelow, _Strange Days_ (USA, 1995, 145 min.)
 
 #### Week 6: Writing theoretically
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 * No guides.
 * Wayne Booth, et al., _The Craft of Research_, selections
 
 #### Midterm paper due: March 1, by 11:59pm
 
 #### Week 7: More film theory: Kyle Stevens
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 * Guides TBD.
 
 #### Week 8: Cont'd
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 * Kyle Stevens, "The Very Thought of Theory" and "The Frame of the Skull," from _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_
 * Zoom visit from Kyle Stevens (Applachian State University)
 
 #### Week 9:The altered spectator: Caetlin Benson-Allott
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 * Guides TBD.
 
 #### Week 10: Cont'd 
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 * Caetlin Benson-Allott, "Contesting the White Gaze: Black Film and Postcinematic Spectatorship" from _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_
 * Caetlin Benson-Allott, "Introduction: Material Mediations," "Blunt Spectatorship: Inedbriated Poetics in Contemporary US Television," and "Conculsion: Expanding the Scene of the Screen" from _The Stuff of Spectatorship_
 * Zoom visit from Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown University)
 
 #### Week 11:The subject in technology: Damon Young
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 * Guides TBD.
 
 #### Week 12: Cont'd
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 * Damon Young, "In Defense of Psychoanalytic Film Theory" from _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_
 * Damon Young, "Through the Window from _Psycho_ to _Shortbus_" from _Making Sex Public_
 * Damon Young, "Ironies of Web 2.0," _Post45_ 2 (2019)