Category Archives: Creative Projects

Videographic Exercises and Radical Pedagogy in the Classroom

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Catherine Fowler “You are in darkness. On the small rectangle of the editing table, imagery goes by. Slightly clenched on the control, … Continue reading

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Best Practice in the Inclusion of Video Essays in the School Curriculum

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Travis McKenzie Part 1: Concept development “Interpretation in the digital age can be expressed in an act of construction.” —Mirko Tobias Schäfer … Continue reading

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Authenticating Assessment through the Video Essay–A Pilot Case Study

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy  Sean Redmond and Joanna Tai, Deakin University Within the Higher Education sector there is an increased focus upon authentic assessment where learning … Continue reading

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Relative Radicalism: Creating Formally Experimental Assignments Grounded in Argument

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Vincent Longo What does it mean to be a radical audiovisual essayist, pedagogue, and educator? Within the field of media studies, the … Continue reading

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Bridging the Theory/Practice Divide through Audiovisual Essays

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy  Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin Many teachers in the field of screen studies are all too familiar with the split between … Continue reading

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Creative Encounters with Film History: Thomas Edison Then/Now

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2) Revisiting the Film History Survey Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University I regularly teach a course on “Film History to 1940” at North Carolina State University. In the fall of 2015, I began incorporating … Continue reading

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Teaching Film History to Production Students

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2)Revisiting the Film History SurveyChad Newsom, Savannah College of Art and Design How does teaching the film history survey change when instructing production students? When I first began to teach history surveys to undergraduate and … Continue reading

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Short Assignment: Using Anti-Surveillance Tools

The purpose of this assignment is to ask student groups to give brief presentations on how to use online, anti-surveillance tools and analyze potential benefits and drawbacks of these tools.  I include this assignment after students have read and discussed … Continue reading

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Culture Jamming as Critical Pedagogy: A Case Study in Remix Media Studies

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol 4 (1) Allison de Fren Occidental College The challenge of teaching a course that combines theory and practice is not only finding the right balance between the two, but also their integration. I have experimented … Continue reading

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The Enemy of Art is the Absence of Limitations: Integrating Film History, Theory, and Production

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol 4 (1) Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana It always happens midterm week. A voice chirps up from the back of the classroom and asks “Why is our midterm on film terms and old movies when … Continue reading

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