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Materials


Online Course Tools

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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.


Images, Clips and Screenshots

All images are in .jpg format and should open on any image viewing program installed on your computer.

PowerPoint and Prezi Presentations

All in-class presentations are available in both PowerPoint 2010 and PDF versions. Presentation titles appear in reverse chronological order, with recent materials at the top of the list.

  • Essay 2 Writing Workshop [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Fat Kid Rules the World (by David Munguia) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Humpday (by Anna Grimm and Jessica Specht) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • The Puffy Chair (by Nibbi Olaniran and Sam Pen) [PDF]
  • Winter's Bone (by James Bartlett, Victoria Flume and Bhavesh Shukla) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Winter's Bone: Production Circumstances [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Looking at Working Girls: Gaze and the Female Subject (with class's discussion notes) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Introducing Working Girls: Sex Work and the Feminist Gaze [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • My Own Private Idaho (by Kiku Mizuno, Daryl Moore, and Tim Purcell) [Prezi]
  • My Own Private Idaho: Shakespeare (and Welles) and the Road Movie Meet New Queer CInema [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Mysterious Skin (by Aiyanna Marbet, Clair Phillips and Tessa Stephenson) [PDF]
  • Poison as Independent Film (by Coren Idle and Bo Kim) [PowerPoint :: PDF :: Clip 1 :: Clip 2]
  • Poison as New Queer Cinema: An Approach to Essay 1 (with class's discussion notes) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Poison: Radical, Associational Form, Politicizing Effect [Prezi]
  • Do the Right Thing: Context, Conflict, and Politicizing Effects [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Conflict and Unity in Do the Right Thing (by Crystal Cheung, Annie Lindsey, and Ian Martin) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Do the Right Thing and Lee's Early Films [ PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Far From Heaven: Postmodern Melodrama [Prezi]
  • Far From Heaven: Mainstream or Independent? (by Chelsea Bell, Jacob Sodeman and Sarah Wai) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Dead Man and the Social Function of Genre [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Dead Man: Genre, Editing, Jarmusch and Independence (by Erik Ben-Zekry, Jordan Ingalls, and Sam Wood) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Dead Man: Circumstances of Production and Screening Cues [Prezi]
  • Pulp Fiction:: Narrative, Postmodern Style and Production/Marketing (by Phil Aram, Zhengjun Hua and Claire Schraeder) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • sex, lies, and videotape: Narrative and Countercultural Sexuality in an Indie Blockbuster (by Luke Dempsey, Haley Lee and Joe Oh) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Introducing sex, lies, and videotape [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Easy Rider: The Mise-En-Scene of Counterculture and Critique [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Easy Rider: A Countercultural Response to the American Dream (by Peter Booker, Noah Keats Sall and Laurie Meckling) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Discussing Narrative Structure in Faces [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Introducing Faces: Cassavetes and Independent Narrative [PowerPoint :: PDF]
  • Introducing Cassavetes and Shadows [PowerPoint :: PDF]

SIFF Information

Information on the schedule of SIFF films the class will see, maps to theaters that will screen our selected film, and lists of bus routes that serve the theaters..