Category Archives: Teaching with Technology

Collective Reading: Shot Analysis and Data Visualization in the Digital Humanities

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier DH and Media Studies Crossovers Vol. 3(3) Joel Burges, Nora Dimmock, and Joshua Romphf University of Rochester In this essay, we discuss a mode of reading we call “collective reading,” which continues and changes traditional shot … Continue reading

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“Talking About Whiteness”: Using Digital Pedagogy to Interrogate Racial Privilege

   Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2)  Shelleen Greene  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee   In this essay, I argue that digital media production can help facilitate critical dialogues about racial privilege that move beyond … Continue reading

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Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier CFP: Online Teaching in Film and Media Studies

Editors: Murray Leeder (University of Calgary) and George S. Larke-Walsh (University of North Texas)   For the Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, we seek brief pieces on the subject of online teaching in film and media studies. At many institutions, online … Continue reading

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Collaborative Models for Engagement

 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

 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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Foregrounding Context Through Paratexts

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Charlotte Howell  University of Texas at Austin   The naturalized primacy of the text has a firm grip on many students’ relation to media, but I have found using paratexts in … 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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The Value of the Paratext in Teaching Media in a Foreign Country

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Marc Raymond  Kwangwoon University   In the Fall of both 2008 and 2009, I taught the course “History of American Cinema” in the Department of Cinema Studies at the Korean National … 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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Is There a Paratext in This Class?

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Jonathan Gray  University of Wisconsin – Madison   A key tenet of my argument about paratexts in Show Sold Separately (2010) is that paratexts are not just additions to the text … Continue reading

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