diff --git a/syllabus.md b/syllabus.md index 306cb82..02a741a 100644 --- a/syllabus.md +++ b/syllabus.md @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th ### Course schedule #### Week 1: Introductions --> 2024-01-10 +2024-01-10 * No guides. * We will discuss this, and other, course documents. * Scott Richmond, "On the Impersonality of Experience," from _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_ @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th * Stanley Cavell, "Music Discomposed," from _Must We Mean What We Say?_ #### Week 2: Cinema, or the invention of modern life --> 2024-01-17 +2024-01-17 * 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). @@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th * _Screening_: Dziga Vertov, _Man with a Movie Camera_ (USSR, 1929, 68 min.) #### Week 3: The culture industry and the critique of instrumental reason --> 2024-01-24 +2024-01-24 * 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 --> 2024-01-31 +2024-01-31 * 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) @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th * _Screening_: Howard Hawks, _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ (USA, 1953, 91 mins.) #### Week 5: The cinematic body --> 2024-02-07 +2024-02-07 * Guides TBD. * Roland Barthes, "Leaving the Movie Theater," from _The Rustle of Language_ * Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness," from _Black Skin, White Masks_ @@ -88,37 +88,37 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th * _Screening_: Kathryn Bigelow, _Strange Days_ (USA, 1995, 145 min.) #### Week 6: Writing theoretically --> 2024-02-14 +2024-02-14 * 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 --> 2024-02-28 +2024-02-28 * Guides TBD. #### Week 8: Cont'd --> 2024-03-06 +2024-03-06 * 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 --> 2024-03-13 +2024-03-13 * Guides TBD. #### Week 10: Cont'd --> 2024-03-20 +2024-03-20 * 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 --> 2024-03-27 +2024-03-27 * Guides TBD. #### Week 12: Cont'd --> 2024-04-03 +2024-04-03 * 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)