Category Archives: Writing Assignments/Research Papers

Surfing the Archive: Teaching Humanistic Approaches to Historical Research Using Online Media Archives and Digital Databases

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2 (3) Fall 2014 Colleen Montgomery University of Texas at Austin   Like many film history instructors, I find that most of my students enter the classroom with both a wealth of personal experiences with … Continue reading

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Case Studies of Local Film Exhibition: An Undergraduate Research Assignment

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2(3) Fall 2014 Jonah Horwitz and Andrea Comiskey University of Wisconsin – Madison     In 2012, we developed a research assignment for a large undergraduate lecture course, taught by Jonah, on US film history … Continue reading

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Wrestling with Where the “Text” Is

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1(3) Fall 2013  Sam Ford  MIT/ Western Kentucky University   Discussing with Americana his scholarly work on the U.S.-style soap opera, Robert C. Allen (2004) said his interest began in a graduate seminar. Allen recalls … Continue reading

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Teaching Hindi Film Song Sequences

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Monika Mehta  Binghamton University, SUNY   Teaching Hindi Film Song Sequences Video Presentation In this video presentation, Monika Mehta explains how she uses paratexts to teach Bollywood song-and-dance sequences and includes a … Continue reading

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Parapedagogy: Teaching Film Analysis from the Digital Periphery

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1(3) Fall 2013  Lynne Stahl  Cornell University   At a time when humanities instructors feel perpetual pressure to make courses “sexy” and “relevant” to attract students to majors with dwindling enrollments, many attempt to do … Continue reading

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Dreamworlds III Documentary

While screening Jhut Sally’s Dreamworlds III: Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video (2007) documentary, I like to use this assignment sheet to guide discussion afterwards. Several of the discussion questions were adapted from a “study guide” available on the … Continue reading

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“Think outside your box” demographics assignment

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Brief analytical/critical paper on electronic media

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Comparing Journalism Sources – Micro-research Assignment

This is a short writing assignment that asks students to compare how a single news story is told by different types of news outlets. I use this assignment in a media literacy class on a day in which we talk about the development of the notion of “objectivity” in journalism and the contested cultural authority of professional journalism. I use these assignments as the basis for class discussion on the day they are turned in. This assignment is easy to modify. Continue reading

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Rough Draft Peer Review

When asking students to review their partners’ rough drafts for a research paper, here are 3 sets of questions I’ve found useful for prompting helpful reviews. Continue reading

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