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ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies Summer Session 3, 2013 (7/15-8/16/2013) Days: TWR | Room: PH 322 | Time: 430-730 |
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The catalog description for this course reads: "6750/ 7750 Film Studies. Three credits. Covers such topics as the film text adaptation narratology genres ideology authorship theory history schools movements national cinemas and film audiences."
Rather than a broad, top-down survey of the nature of the discipline of film studies (which is how I did it last time) this incarnation will be, in keeping with the particular limitations and inspirations of a summer graduate course, a bottom-up introduction to film studies through an interwoven comparison / contrast between film and television as narrative media (with a particular emphasis on the "Television is Better Than the Movies Meme") and film and television reviewing.
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Office: PH 316 | Office Hours: MTuWTh 900-1130 am; M 200-300 pm | E-mail: david.lavery@gmail.com | Office Phone/Voice-Mail: 615-898-5648 | Home Page: http://davidlavery.net/ |
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Dr. David Lavery is Director of Graduate Studies and Professor in the English Department at MTSU. The recipient of the University's 2006 Distinguished Research Award, he is the author of over one hundred and fifty published essays, chapters, and reviews, he is author / co-author / editor / co-editor of over twenty books, including Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Avengers, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural, The Essential Cult Television Reader, and The Essential Sopranos Reader. The co-convener of international conferences on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the work of Joss Whedon and on The Sopranos, co-founder of the Whedon Studies Association, and founding editor of the journals Slayage: The Online International Journal of the Whedon Studies Association and Critical Studies in Television, he has lectured around the world on the subject of television (Australia, Turkey, the UK, Portugal, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany) and has been a guest/source for the BBC, NPR, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times, A Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Publica (Portugal), Information (Netherlands), AP, The Toronto Star, USA Today. From 2006-2008, he taught at Brunel University in London. |
Click on The Language of Film and Television Entertainment covers to go to the Amazon pages for each book or order online from any other seller. The MOMI [Museum of the Moving Image] Film History book is available as a PDF (click on the cover).
| Laura Black | Clint Bryan | Dan Copp | Tom Cruz |
| Jessica Glade | Joshua Hite | Margaret Anne Johnson | Sara Kern |
| Cori Mathis | Dawn Schock | Donna Swaner |
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Writing: Completion of any two of the following: [A] a study of a major film/television critic | [B] a study of a television series vs. a movie | [C] a study of a movie theorist | [D] a study of a movie auteur | [E] A study of a television auteur | [F] a comparative film vs. television study of one of the following aspects/techniques: acting | adaptation | authorship | editing | eroticism | gender | genre | history | intertextuality / self-referentiality | language | mise-en-scθne | music | narrative | narration/voice-over | paratexts | point of view | race | realism | semiotics | violence | another aspect/technique approved by me All topics should be approved by me. Length: each 2000 words (MA students)/3,000 words (PhD students) | Weight: Each worth 40% of course grade. Due: One (your choice) by midnight, August 2; a second by midnight, August 16. Submit via the appropriate D2L drop boxes. |
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Class Participation: (1) daily involvement in class discussion; (2) substantial contributions to the course blog [go here to learn more]; (3) class presentation of an assigned film/television term; (4) class presentation of the critical response to a particular movie or television series/episode [make your claim via e-mail; you may not choose any film or TV appearing on this syllabus]; (5) other presentations as assigned. | Weight: 20% of course grade. |
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Week 1 |
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Meeting 17/16/13
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Meeting 27/17/13
Movies vs. TV:
L.A.
Confidential
(Curtis Hanson, 1997)
versus
The Shield
(FX, 2002-2008)
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Power Point
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Meeting 37/18/13
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Week 2 |
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Meeting 47/23/13
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Meeting 57/24/13
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Meeting 67/25/13
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Week 3 |
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Meeting 77/30/13
Movies vs. TV:
Star Trek
(rebooted) (J. J.
Abrams, 2009,
2013) versus
Battlestar Galactica
(Sci-Fi, 2004-2009) |
Power Point
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Meeting 87/31/13
Movies vs. TV:
Romero Films:
Night of the
Living Dead (1968),
Dawn of the Dead
(1978),
Day of the Dead
(1985),
Land of the
Dead (2005),
Diary of
the Dead (2007) versus
The Walking Dead
(AMC, 2010- ) |
Power Point
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Meeting 98/1/13
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Week 4 |
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Meeting 108/6/13
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Meeting 118/7/13
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Meeting 128/8/13
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Week 5 |
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Meeting 138/13/13
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Meeting 148/14/13
Subject:
Postmodernism |
Intertextuality / Self-Referentiality | Paratexts
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Meeting 15 8/15/13
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