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Call for Proposals

“Critical Lessons on Media Industries” Submission deadline: February 20, 2017 Helping students think critically about media industries is crucial for developing their media literacy skills and preparing them to understand the way in which ownership structures, regulatory policies, and profoundly … Continue reading

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Finding the Face-to-Face When You Have No Face: Fostering Student-Student and Student-Professor Engagement in the Online Media Classroom

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Volume 3 (1) Winter 2015 Kelly Kessler  DePaul University The beginning of my appointment at DePaul University directly coincided with The College of Communication’s (my home unit’s) push to increase its profile as a site for … Continue reading

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Teaching Experimental Cinema Online

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Volume 3 (1) Winter 2015 Glyn Davis  University of Edinburgh In April and May of 2014, I ran a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Andy Warhol via the Coursera platform. ‘Warhol’ ran for five weeks … Continue reading

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Using Short Films and Regular Viewing Habits as a Catalyst for Online Pedagogy

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Volume 3 (1) Winter 2015 Matt Swift  Ohio State University Amidst increasing integration of online teaching and learning, Cinema and Media Studies programs face great challenges primarily in the areas of access to pedagogical content, and how … Continue reading

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The Awakening: An Ongoing Collaborative Experience for Peer-Based Filmmaking

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Volume 3 (1) Winter 2015 Antoni Roig and Talia Leibovitz Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/IN3 This paper presents the first results of an on-going experiment on distributed creativity in screenwriting and film creation, which is taking place … Continue reading

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Online Teaching in Film and Media Studies/ Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 3(1)

            Online Teaching in Film and Media Studies Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol 3 (1) Spring/Winter 2015 Co-Editors: Murray Leeder and George Larke-Walsh Table of Contents Teaching Experimental Cinema Online by Glyn Davis Finding the Face-to-Face When … Continue reading

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Researching Media Industries: Understanding Business as a Cultural Text

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2(3) Fall 2014 Karen Petruska University of California – Santa Barbara     Media industry studies shares with other approaches to media studies a focus upon how an individual text may be shaped by the … Continue reading

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Breaking it down, building it up: A research exercise for first-year media studies students

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2(3) Fall 2014 Susan Potter, Yvonne Griggs and Dugald Williamson University of New England (UNE), Australia     Introduction How can we introduce first-year students to the skills, procedures, complexities, and pleasures of research in … Continue reading

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CFP: Beyond Google: Teaching Humanistic Research Skills

Despite claims of a tech-savvy, “digital native” student body, college instructors often find many students’ research skills are limited. For this dossier, we seek essays that address approaches for teaching humanistic research methods, speak to connections between teaching scholarly research … Continue reading

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

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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