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 There are two papers for the course. A midterm paper due on March 1 (5-7pp.), and a final paper on April 30 (18-20pp.).
 
 **Midterm paper.** Worth 25% of your final mark. The midterm paper will involve close engagement with one of the essays from Kyle Stevens, _The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory_. This will involve an analytical summary and theoretical critique of this essay. Students will all work on different essays.
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 **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.
 
 **Good citizenship.** Worth 25% 0f your final mark. Good citizenship involves things both countable and uncountable. The countable parts will be assessed using a chit system; the uncountable parts will be assessed holistically. Each is worth a third of the "good citizenship" mark total. Here's the breakdown:
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 ### 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_
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 * 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).
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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 
-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)
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 * _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_
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 * _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)