Category Archives: Media Examples for the Classroom

Finding productive media examples to use in the classroom can be time-consuming and challenging. Here are media examples other teachers have found useful along with descriptions and information about the teaching contexts in which they were used.

Unsettling the Canadian Film History Classroom through Sound

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2) Revisiting the Film History Survey Randolph Jordan, Ryerson University Chronology is the death of the survey course in Canadian film history. We simply do not harbor the necessary richness of early cinema to sustain … Continue reading

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Experiments with Pedagogy’s Forms

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Tara McPherson, University of Southern California   “The educator also has the duty of not being neutral”  (Paulo Freire and Horton, 1990: 180).  I have never understood teaching to … Continue reading

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Our networks will be anti-racist and our pedagogy critical

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Mihaela Brebenel, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Introductions I write this in the time of historical repetitions: once more, the rise of ethno-nationalisms and racism in Central and … Continue reading

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Public education in cinema: Resistance pedagogies for student teachers

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1)  Nisha Thapliyal, University of Newcastle, Australia   I teach at a four-year undergraduate teacher education program in a regional Australian university, close to Sydney. The mission of our teacher education … Continue reading

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A Conversation with Ranjani Mazumdar on the attacks on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)

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Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University and  Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California   1. Priya Jaikumar (Cinema Journal): The JNU Teachers Association (JNUTA) and the Students Union (JNUSU) have accused … Continue reading

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Liberal fascism

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Lee Grieveson, University College London   The 2007-9 economic crash made abundantly clear the failures of the neo-liberal project of de-regulation and the financialization of markets. In the midst of … Continue reading

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On the Private in Private Higher Education, and Pedagogical Interventions in the Context of the American University of Beirut

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Ghalya Saadawi, American University of Beirut   In Lebanon, as elsewhere, the ‘turn’ to the right is the result of a systemic economic and ideological condition of state governance and … Continue reading

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Projection and Modulation: Media Art and Forms of Criticality

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2)  Holly Willis  University of Southern California   The “pedagogical turn” in contemporary art has received significant attention in the context of participatory art practices – thanks to the … Continue reading

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‘Humanimal’ University: Teaching To Awaken Consciousness of Human and Animal Suffering Amidst Politics of Big Business

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3(2)  Ellen Gorsevski  Bowling Green State University   “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – [attributed to] … Continue reading

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Teaching Irresponsibly and Uncomfortably: The Role of Theory in the Neoliberal University

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier   Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol 3 (2)  Hunter Hargraves  California State University, Fullerton   Over the last year, many online (and offline) spaces have taken up the question of trigger warnings – statements that prevent … Continue reading

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