Materials

Student Survey

• Link to online student survey

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.

• Essay 2 Assignment [PDF :: HTML]
• Documenting Sources [Word Doc :: PDF]
• Essay Grading Rubric [PDF :: HTML]
• Essay 1 Assignment [PDF :: HTML]
• Clip Annotation Assignment [PDF :: HTML]
• Compiled Group Work Notes: A House Divided
• Presentation Groups
• Presentation Assignment and Grading
• Syllabus

PowerPoint Presentations

All in-class presentations are available in PowerPoint and PDF format. If you do not have PowerPoint, you may download the PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft. Presentation titles appear in reverse chronological order, with recent materials at the top of the list.

• Comparative Essays: Strengths and Weaknesses [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Defining Gender in Boys Don't Cry [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Kimberly Peirce [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Lost in Translation: Distortion of the Romantic Comedy (Ali Conner, Shane Roberts, Aman Sekhon) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Sofia Coppola [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Autumn Moon (Alison Gorman and Julia Johnson) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Clara Law [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Vagabond: Agnes Varda and Feminist Filmmaking [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Agnes Varda [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Cheryl Dunye and The Watermelon Woman [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Kathryn Bigelow: Genre, Gender and the Relationship Between Men [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Sound in Beau Travail (Charley Armstrong, Jing Feng and Trevor Walenbach) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Beau Travail: The Military, Masculinity and Colonialism [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Marta Meszaros/Political Background for Diary for My Children [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Editing in Marianne and Juliane (Jonathan Armoza, Tracey Hale and Andrew Pritzkau) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Margarethe von Trotta [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• The Piano and Cinematography (Alex Emry, Phil Harty and Amber Inman) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Jane Campion [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Looking at Danzon: Gaze, Gender and Genre [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Danzon and Mise-en-Scene (Nine Kenner, Chrissy Love, and Miguel Peason) [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Maria Novaro [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Cinema and the New Woman [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Dorothy Arzner/Narrative in Christopher Strong [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Alice Guy Blaché [PowerPoint :: PDF]
• Introducing Lois Weber [PowerPoint :: PDF]

Course Information

• Times
• M, 2:30-5:20 p.m.
  TTH, 2:30-4:20 p.m.
• Rooms
• Mary Gates 251 (M)
  Mary Gates 271 (TTH)

Instructor Information

• Contact
• Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges
  206.543.4892
  kgb[at]u[dot]washington[dot]edu
• Office
• Padelford A305
  
• Office Hours
• TTH, 4:30-5:30 p.m., or by appt.
  

Alice Guy, Director

Not only is a woman as well fitted to stage a photodrama as a man, but in may ways she has a distinct advantage over him because of her very nature and because much of the knowledge called for in the telling of the story and the creation of the stage is absolutely within her province as a member of the gentler sex.