Category Archives: Syllabi

Teaching Production in a Liberal Arts Context

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Julie Wilson

 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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Collaborative Models for Engagement

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014  Bryan Sebok, PhD.  Lewis & Clark College   Teaching film and media studies, including production, at liberal arts colleges offers unique opportunities and unique challenges that differ from other types of institutions.  … Continue reading →

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Flipping German Cinema

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Julie Wilson

 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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Local Truths, Tactical Pedagogies: Documentary, Ethics, and Service Learning

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014  Chuck Tryon  Fayetteville State University   This essay offers what was essentially a tactical response to both the devaluation of the liberal arts and the decline in funding for higher education. Specifically, … Continue reading →

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Advertisers’ image of housewives’ leisure time: 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company ad campaign in The Saturday Evening Post

Posted on January 11, 2014 by tccorrigan1

In his chapter “Advertising as Social Tableaux”, Roland Marchand discusses a 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company campaign in The Saturday Evening Post. Marchand uses the ads to illustrate advertisers’ presumptions about what housewives wanted to use their leisure time for. … Continue reading →

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Intro to New Media – Ursinus College

Posted on January 9, 2014 by tony

This course offers an introduction to thinking about relationships among emerging media technologies, everyday life, society, and history.  We will be exploring questions about what kinds of social impacts new media are having, as well as how social, political and … Continue reading →

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Paratexts and Pedagogy / Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 1(3)

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Julie Wilson

Paratexts and Pedagogy Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013 Co-editors: Ted Hovet and Lisa Patti   Table of Contents Foregrounding Contexts Through Paratexts by Charlotte Howell Wrestling with Where the ‘Text’ Is by Sam Ford Parapedagogy: Teaching … Continue reading →

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Advertising and Propaganda: Critical Approaches

Posted on July 19, 2013 by tony

Here’s my syllabus an intermediate level undergrad class introducing critical media studies approaches to advertising and propaganda. This was the first time I taught this syllabus, and I will surely refine it in the future.  But I had a good … Continue reading →

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Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Call for Proposals: Paratexts and Pedagogy

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Julie Wilson

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier at TeachingMedia.Org Call For Proposals: Paratexts and Pedagogy In the media industry as well as in media studies, paratext is the new text.  What does this mean in the classroom?  The variety of paratexts now circulating … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing TV’s Buffy

Posted on July 13, 2013 by profroguerouge

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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