Class Clips

The class clips page contains web-streamed versions of clips from most class films.  To access the page, you'll have to log on with your UW NetID and password.

Class Handouts

All class handouts are in Adobe PDF format unless otherwise specified. To download the free Adobe Reader, click here. The designation "UW-restricted" means that you must log on with your UW Net ID to access the handout.  All documents will open in a new browser window.  To return to this page, close the new browser window.

• Final Essay Assignment and Guidelines
  
• "Fight the Power" Lyrics and Quotations from MLK and Malcolm X
  
• Midterm and Final Essay Grading Criteria
• Midterm Essay Assignment and Guidelines
  
• Video Traces Instructions
  
• Video Traces Grading
  
• Video Traces Groups
  
• Video Traces Assignment
  
• Screening Calendar
  
• Student Information Sheet
  
• Syllabus
  

Class PowerPoint Presentations

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• Do the Right Thing: Text and Contexts
  
• Queer Media: Film, Television, and Fan Fiction
  
• Vietnam War Film: Apocalypse Now
  
• Shifting Terrain: Easy Rider
  
• Dr. Strangelove and Nuclear Nightmares
  
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Hollywood and the Red Scare
  
• Film Noir and Postwar Culture
  
• From Frank Capra to Film Noir
  
• The Cultural Work of Depression-Era Film
  
• Film Flappers, Consumption, and Female Agency
• Cultural Studies 101: The Case of The Birth of a Nation
  

Selected Class Readings

• Rogin, "'And the Sword Became a Flashing Vision": D.W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation"
  

Page Last Updated 12/9/03
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