Category Archives: Film and Television

Teaching Production in a Liberal Arts Context

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014  Paul McEwan  Muhlenberg College       “What’s the most interesting idea you’ve learned here in the past year?” A few weeks before students begin my Video Production course, they receive this … Continue reading

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Flipping German Cinema

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014  Karen R. Achberger  St. Olaf College   Since 2007, educators are increasingly turning to a model of instruction called Flipped Learning where lectures and homework are reversed (or inverted): the lectures are … Continue reading

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Deconstructing TV’s Buffy

Course Description and Objectives: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an extremely “full” text, playing on ideological fault lines (the “Hellmouth,” if you will) throughout its 103 hours. The series, self-consciously generic in conception and execution, allows this course to examine … Continue reading

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Lighting and Race Article

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ScreenSite.org – Online Resource for Media Education and Scholarship

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Website: Media Literacy Clearinghouse

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Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord’s extensive reinterpretation of Marx’s work is a particularly difficult text for students to read. However most issues relating to commodity fetishism, alienation and the role of the mass media in distracting the public from more serious issues can be discussed in this video clip of the Adam Freeland song, We want your soul Continue reading

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Media Criticism

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Media Literacy: Theory, Power, Identity

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On Stardom: Media and the Making of Celebrity Culture

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