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Spring

Part I:  Culture and Ideology in Film

Week 1 (Jan. 7-11):  Introduction
Reader (see required text on syllabus)
1.  Simmons, “Ideology and Multicultural Film”
2.  Lippman, “Stereotypes,” “Codes & their Enemies”

Lecture  (note: all lectures will open in a separate browser window)
Hi bandwidth (56K or higher); Lo bandwidth (28.8K or lower)

In Class  Possible Selections from The Great Primitives and Battle at Elderbush Gulch.

Real media version available at: http://video1.xoom.com/ramgen/BattleatElderbrush.rm 

 
Week 2 (Jan. 14-18):  Film Language/Technique
Reader
1. Belton, “Classical Hollywood Style”
2. Bordwell, Thompson, “Style in CITIZEN KANE”

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Shadow of Doubt

 
Week 3 (Jan. 22-25):  Ideology
Reader
1. Austin, “Marxist Criticism”
2. Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”
3. Kavanaugh (optional)

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
The Matrix

Part II.  Intersectionalities and Various Approaches to Film Criticism

Week 4 (Jan. 28-Feb. 1):  Ideology and Race
Reader
1. Omi and Winant, “Racial Formation”
2. McIntosh, Peggy. “White Privilege”
3. Dyer, White, Chapters VI (optional)
4. Snead, “Spectatorship . . . “ (optional)
5. Hooks, “Oppositional Gaze” (optional)

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Imitation of Life
 

Week 5 (Feb. 4-8):  Psychoanalysis and Gender
Reader
1. Gail Houston, “Psychoanalytic Criticism”
2. Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
3. Freud, “On Fetishism” (optional)
4. Merck “Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity” (optional)
5. McKahan, Rethinking the Gaze (optional)

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Psycho
 

Week 6 (Feb. 11-15):  Sexuality, Gender, Ideology
Reader
1. Rubin, “Thinking Sex”
2. Weber, “A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality”
3. Rubin, “Trafficking in Women” (optional)
4. Benshoff, Chapter I (optional)

Lecture
6A: Hi band; Lo band
6B: Hi band; Lo band

In Class  Selections from Celluloid Closet.

Assigned Film
Strawberry and Chocolate

POSSIBLE DRAFT DUE
 

Week 7 (Feb. 18-22):  Love and Ideology
Reader
1. Belton, “Genre and the Genre System”
2. Wright, “Genre Films and the Status Quo”
3. Cooper, “Love, Danger and the Professional Ideology of Hollywood Cinema”
4. Wood, “Ideology, Gender and the Auteur”

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Pretty Woman
 

Week 8 (Feb. 25-Mar. 1):  Film Noir, Action/Adventure Films, Masculinity and Femininity
Reader
1. Belton, “Film Noir:  Somewhere in the Night”
2. Thompson, “We Should Reject Traditional Masculinity”
3. Place, “Women in the Film Noir” (optional)

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
LA Confidential
 

Week 9 (Mar. 4-8):  Independent Films
Reader
1. Simmons
2. Belton, “Counterculture Strikes Back”

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Pi/Beloved

Mar. 11-15, 2002 Spring Break – No Classes
 

Week 10 (Mar. 18-22):  MIDTERMS
 

Week 11 (Mar. 25-29):  The Politics of the Gaze:  Anxieties of Gender & Technology in Frankenstein Films
Reader
1. Picart, Chapter I, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein
2. Picart, Chapter II, Section II, on Whale’s Frankenstein, and Section IV, on Son of Frankenstein

Lecture
11A:  Hi band; Lo band
11B:  Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Son of Frankenstein
 

Week 12 (Apr. 1-5):  Monstrosity, Sex and Gender
Reader
1. Picart, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein, Chapter II, Section III, on “Bride of Frankenstein”
2. Picart, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein, Chapter III, Section IV, on “Frankenstein Created Woman”

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Bride of Frankenstein
 

Week 13 (Apr. 8-12):  Masculinities and Femininities in Frankenstein Films
Reader
1. Picart, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein, Chapter III, Section VI, on “Frankenstein Must be Destroyed”
2. Picart, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein, Chapter II, Section VII, on “House of Frankenstein”

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
House of Frankenstein

Week 14 (Apr. 15-19):  Contemporary Renditions of the Frankenstein Myth
Reader
1. Picart, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein, Chapter IV, Section II, on “Frankenstein 1970”
2. Picart, The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein, Chapter IV, Section III, on “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

Lecture
Hi band; Lo band

Assigned Film
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Week 15  Final Exam Week

FINAL PAPERS ARE REQUIRED