diff --git a/syllabus.md b/syllabus.md index 076b42e..58bd548 100644 --- a/syllabus.md +++ b/syllabus.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ - [Administrativia](#administrativia) - [Course details](#course-details) - - [Catalogue description](#catalog-description) + - [Catalogue description](#catalogue-description) - [Scott's take](#scotts-take) - [Assignments & marking](#assignments-marking) - [Course patterns](#course-patterns) @@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ - [Week 3: The culture industry and the critique of instrumental reason, 2024-01-24](#week-3-the-culture-industry-and-the-critique-of-instrumental-reason-2024-01-24) - [Week 4: Politics and the unconscious, 2024-01-31](#week-4-politics-and-the-unconscious-2024-01-31) - [Week 5: The cinematic body, 2024-02-07](#week-5-the-cinematic-body-2024-02-07) - - [Week 6: Writing theoretically, 2024-02-14](#week-6-writing-theoreticall-2024-02-14) + - [Week 6: Writing theoretically, 2024-02-14](#week-6-writing-theoretically-2024-02-14) + - [Week 7: More film theory: Kyle Stevens, 2024-02-28](#week-7-more-film-theory-kyle-stevens-2024-02-28) - [Midterm paper due: March 1, by 11:59pm](#midterm-paper-due-march-1-by-1159pm) - - [Week 7: More film theory: Kyle Steven, 2024-02-28](#week-7-more-film-theory-kyle-steven-2024-02-28) - - [Week 8: Cont', 2024-03-06](#week-8-cont-2024-03-06) - - [Week 9:The altered spectator: Caetlin Benson-Allot, 2024-03-13](#week-9the-altered-spectator-caetlin-benson-allot-2024-03-13) + - [Week 8: Cont'd, 2024-03-06](#week-8-contd-2024-03-06) + - [Week 9: The material spectator: Caetlin Benson-Allot, 2024-03-13](#week-9-the-material-spectator-caetlin-benson-allot-2024-03-13) - [Week 10: Cont'd, 2024-03-20](#week-10-contd-2024-03-20) - - [Week 11:The subject in technology: Damon Young, 2024-03-27](#week-11the-subject-in-technology-damon-youn-2024-03-27) - - [Week 12: Cont', 2024-04-03](#week-12-cont-2024-04-03) - - [WIP stand-ups/workshop: date TBD, sometime between April 3 and 19.](#wip-standupsworkshop-date-tbd-sometime-between-april-3-and-19) + - [Week 11: The subject in technology: Damon Young, 2024-03-27](#week-11-the-subject-in-technology-damon-young-2024-03-27) + - [Week 12: Cont'd, 2024-04-03](#week-12-contd-2024-04-03) + - [WIP stand-ups/workshop: date TBD, sometime between April 3 and 19.](#wip-stand-upsworkshop-date-tbd-sometime-between-april-3-and-19) - [Final paper due: April 26, 2024, by 11:59pm](#final-paper-due-april-26-2024-by-1159pm) - [Course policies](#course-policies) - [Addressing Scott](#addressing-scott) @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ My goals for you for this semester are: (1) to get a solid grounding in how to r #### Assignments & marking There are two papers for the course. A midterm paper due on March 1 (5-7pp.), and a final paper on April 26 (18-20pp.). Please note that all written work will be submitted to all participants in the course: we are a community of scholars working and thinking together. -**Midterm paper.** Worth 25% of your final mark. The midterm paper will involve close engagement with any one of the essays from Kyle Stevens, _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_ (that we are not otherwise reading together in class). This will involve an analytical summary and theoretical critique of this essay. Students will all work on different essays. +**Midterm paper.** Worth 25% of your final mark. The midterm paper will involve close engagement with any one of the essays from Kyle Stevenss, _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_ (that we are not otherwise reading together in class). This will involve an analytical summary and theoretical critique of this essay. Students will all work on different essays. **Final paper.** Worth 50% of your final mark. The final paper will be an act of theorizing of your own. This will be guided (if not quite scaffolded) over the second half of the course. The midterm paper should be a starting point for this. @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th * Guides TBD. * Roland Barthes, "Leaving the Movie Theater," from _The Rustle of Language_ * Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness," from _Black Skin, White Masks_ -* Steven Shaviro, "Film Theory and Visual Fascination," from _The Cinematic Body_ +* Stevens Shaviro, "Film Theory and Visual Fascination," from _The Cinematic Body_ * Vivian Sobchack, "What My Fingers Knew," from _Carnal Thoughts_ * _Screening_: Kathryn Bigelow, _Strange Days_ (USA, 1995, 145 min.) @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th * No guides. * Wayne Booth, et al., _The Craft of Research_, selections -#### Week 7: More film theory: Kyle Steven, 2024-02-28 +#### Week 7: More film theory: Kyle Stevens, 2024-02-28 * Guides TBD. * Readings TBA. * Screening: Lynne Ramsay, _You Were Never Really Here_ (UK/France/USA, 2019, 90 mins.) @@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ This is a reading-heavy and reading-forward course. The attachment here is to th #### Midterm paper due: March 1, by 11:59pm #### Week 8: Cont'd, 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 (Appalachian State University) +* Kyle Stevenss, "The Very Thought of Theory" and "The Frame of the Skull," from _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_ +* Zoom visit from Kyle Stevenss (Appalachian State University) #### Week 9: The material spectator: Caetlin Benson-Allot, 2024-03-13 * Guides TBD.