Clips
The clips page contains high- and low-bandwidth versions of scenes from course films. Please note that you must log on with your UW Net ID and password to access the clips page.Handouts
All course handouts are in Adobe PDF format unless otherwise specified. To get a free copy of the latest Adobe Reader, go to the Adobe site. Handout titles appear in reverse chronological order, with recent materials at the top of the list.
- Napier Reading Guide
- Take-Home Final Assignment
- Take-Home Final Grading Criteria
- eXistenZ Screening Questions and Keane Reading Guide
- Article Critique Workshop [Overview of Common Issues | Annotated Sample Critique (available via E-Reserve)]
- Article Critique Grading Criteria
- Article Critique Assignment
- Terminator Screening Questions
- Blade Runner Screening Questions
- Summaries of Fail-Safe and Them!
- Missing Reading Packet Pages from Corrigan [58-59 | 62-63]
- Basic Film Terms
- Technology Defined
- Presentation Assignment and Guidelines
- Presentation Grading
- Student Profile and Release
- Syllabus
In-Class Presentations
All in-class presentations are web versions of PowerPoint presentations and can thus be read on any browser. Presentation titles appear in reverse chronological order, with recent materials at the top of the list.
- Ghost in the Shell: Technology and Identity
- The Matrix: Technology, Simulation, and Identity
- Plugging Into eXistenZ
- The Terminator: Telotte on Surface and Depth
- Blade Runner: Critiquing the Articles, Discussing the Film
- Dr. Strangelove and Nuclear Nightmares
- Modern Times: Chaplin's Inabilty to Adjust to the New Economy (by Gino Orlandini, Nicholas Vlahos, Stephen Wood, and Isha Zubeidi)
- Modern Times: Ethical and Economic Arguments (by Korey Dunkel, Amber McMullin, Christian Pugh, and Courtney Sue-Ako)
- Metropolis: The Moloch Machine (by Chris Callagan, Christine Mussen, Alex Stavert, and David Tomihiro)
- Metropolis: Style, Machines, and Mediators
- The Heads and The Hands: An Analysis of Visual Storytelling and Class in Metropolis (by Kelly Byrne, Adam Cooper, and John Porter) [HTML | PDF]
- Sherlock Jr.: Analyzing Narrative and Technology
- Cinema as Technological Innovation
- Films about Technology: General Questions
Midterm Course Evaluation
Reserves
The following texts are on electronic reserve. Please note that you must log on with your UW Net ID to access electronic reserve materials.
- Selections from "A Guide to Ghost in the Shell." Ghost in the Shell. Dir. Mamoru Oshii. 1995. DVD. Manga Video/Polygram Video, 1996.
- Stiller, Andrew. "The Music in Blade Runner."
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