Title--Schedule

Week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Finals

This schedule may be altered at any point in the quarter at the instructor's discretion.  All readings must be completed before the class meeting on the day listed; course packet readings are indicated by the code "(P)."  Please note that the presentation due dates apply only to the groups scheduled to give the presentations.
 
Date Activity Reading Due
1/2 Course Introduction    
1/3 Screening: Keystone shorts Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (Sennett, 1913),and A Movie Star (Hibbard, 1916); Chaplin shorts Face on the Barroom Floor (1915) The Immigrant (1917), and Easy Street (1917) Sklar, “”The Birth of a Mass Medium,” “Nickel Madness,” “Edison’s Trust and How it Got Busted” (P) Posting on Chaplin and Keystone shorts due by 9:00 p.m.
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Discussion of Chaplin shorts and early cinema history Sklar, “Chaos, Magic, Physical Genius and the Art of Silent Comedy” (P)  
1/8 Screening: D.W. Griffith Biograph shorts A Corner in Wheat (1909), Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), For His Son (1912), What Shall We Do With Our Old? (1911)

Workshop:  Introduction to Cinema Studies Research Methods

Corrigan, “Researching the Movies,” pages 144-177 Posting on D.W. Griffith shorts due by 9:00 p.m.
1/9 Discussion of D.W. Griffith shorts  Brinkley, “The Progressive Era” (distributed in class on 1/8)  
1/10 Screening: The Cheat (DeMille, 1915)

Workshop:  Introduction to Course Computer Tools

Corrigan, “Film Terms and Topics for Film Analysis and Writing,” pages. 41-91

Optional Bridgman Lecture: The Movies and the Progressive Era

Posting on The Cheat due by 9:00 p.m.
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Discussion of The Cheat Higashi, “Race, Gender, and Class in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat” (P)  
1/15 Martin Luther King Holiday    
1/16 Continue discussion of The Cheat     
1/17 Screening: The Crowd (Vidor, 1928)   Posting on The Crowd due by 9:00 p.m.
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Discussion of The Crowd Belton, “Silent Melodrama” (P)   
1/22 Screening:  The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) 

Workshop:  Web Tools 1 

  Posting on The Jazz Singer due by 9:00 p.m.
1/23 Student presentation and discussion of The Jazz Singer Rogin, “Blackface, White Noise:  The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice” (P) Presentation:  Mass Culture, the Melting Pot, and The Jazz Singer (Shenna Bautista and Marcie MacRae)
1/24 Screening: Mantrap (Fleming, 1926), Female (Curtiz, 1933), Our Dancing Daughters (Beaumont, 1928), and Our Modern Maidens (Conway, 1929) Optional Bridgman Lecture: The Roaring Twenties:  The Motion Pictures and the New Morality Posting on Mantrap due by 9:00 p.m.
1/25 Student presentation and discussion of Mantrap and clips

Take-home midterm distributed 

  Presentation:  Pre-Code Films, Censorship, and the Production Code (Taylor Matson and Lyquoc Vo)
1/26

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    Take-home midterm due by 4:00 p.m. in hard copy, via email, or via Web form
1/29 Screening: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)

Discussion of approaches to Web project

  Posting on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington due by 9:00 p.m.
1/30 Student presentation and discussion of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Wolfe, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Democratic Forums and Representational Forms” (P)  Presentation:  The Politics of Hollywood Film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Ranielle Gray and Daniel Halsey)
1/31 Screening: Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy, 1933)
 

Workshop:  Web Tools 2 

 

Corrigan, “Film History,” pages 94-97, “National Cinemas, pages 97-101, “Ideology,” pages 108, and “Sample Essays,” pages 108-115 (all in “Six Approaches to Writing About Film”) 

Optional Bridgman Lecture: The Great Depression and the Great Escape from Reality

Posting on Gold Diggers of 1933  due by 9:00 p.m.
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Student presentation and discussion of Gold Diggers of 1933 Rubin, “The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal” (P) 
2/5 Screening: Sergeant York (Hawks, 1941)

Discussion of Web project proposal 

  Posting on Sergeant York due by 9:00 p.m.
2/6 Student presentation and discussion of Sergeant York Belton, “The War Film” (P) Presentation: Sergeant York and Hollywood’s Call to War (Josh Platis and James Veitch)
2/7 Screening: Bataan (Garnett, 1943)

Workshop:  Web Tools 3

Optional Bridgman Lecture: The Second World War: Hollywood Re-Enlists Posting on Bataan due by 9:00 p.m.
2/8 Student presentation and discussion of Bataan   Presentation:  Ethnic Unity/National Unity in Bataan(Jason Clifford and Annalisa Pesek)
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    Web project proposal due by 4:00 p.m. (commented proposals will be uploaded before class on 2/12)
2/12 Screening: Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)

Discussion of Web project annotated bibliography 

  Posting on Double Indemnity due by 9:00 p.m.
2/13 Student presentation and discussion of Double Indemnity Belton, “Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night” (P) Presentation: Double Indemnity, Film Noir, and Post-War Culture (Cherise Agua-Andrews and Colin Loney)
2/14 Screening: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel, 1956)  Optional Bridgman Lecture: The Cold War and Film Noir Posting on Invasion of the Body Snatchers due by 9:00 p.m.
2/15 Student presentation(s) and discussion of Invasion of the Body Snatchers Samuels, “The Age of Conspiracy and Conformity” (P)  Presentation:  Hollywood, HUAC, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kristina Patton and Jason Woerner)
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    Web project annotated bibliography due by 4:00 p.m. (commented annotated bibliography will be uploaded before class on 2/20)
2/19 Presidents Day Holiday    
2/20 Lab Period: Web Project    
2/21 Screening: Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)

Lab Period: Web project

  Posting on Dr. Strangelove due by 9:00 p.m.
2/22 Student presentation and discussion of Dr. Strangelove Maland, “Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy” (P) Presentation:  Dark Comedy and the Cold War (Lanna Apisukh, Brian Rash, and Ivan Winkler)
2/23

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    Web project design template and site map with description of page contents due by 4:00 p.m. (comments on design and map will be uploaded before class on 2/26) 
2/26 Screening: Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969), The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978), Part I    Posting on Easy Rider due by 9:00 p.m.
2/27 Student presentation and discussion of Easy Rider Klinger “The Road to Dystopia” (P)  Presentation: Easy Rider as Counter-Culture Film (Kara Creelman, Melissa Murdock, and Stephanie Shushan)
2/28 Screening: The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978), Part II    Posting on The Deer Hunter due by 9:00 p.m.
3/1 Student presentation and discussion of The Deer Hunter Wood, “Two Films by Michael Cimino” (P) Presentation:  Hollywood, Vietnam, and The Deer Hunter (Peter Escher and Megan King)
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    First draft of Web project due by 4:00 p.m. (commented drafts will be uploaded before class on 3/5)
3/5 Screening: Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)

Discussion of Web project drafts and writing style 

Corrigan, “Style and Structure in Writing,” pages 122-143 Posting on Do the Right Thing due by 9:00 p.m.
3/6 Discussion of Do the Right Thing

Course Evaluation 

Kellner, “Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in the Films of Spike Lee"  
3/7 Web project presentations and feedback   Presentations: Web project
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Kimberlee presenting at the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference—No Class    
3/12

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    Final draft of Web project due by 5:00 p.m.

 
 

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