Tag Archives: Film Studies

But How Do We Know They Watched It? Adapting to the Flipped Classroom Conundrum

Posted on February 23, 2015 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Volume 3 (1) Winter 2015 Ruari Elkington and Peter Schembri Queensland University of Technology Those who teach film and media need to use screen content to illustrate their subjects. For example, students want illustrations to accompany … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 23, 2015 by tony

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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Surfing the Archive: Teaching Humanistic Approaches to Historical Research Using Online Media Archives and Digital Databases

Posted on October 14, 2014 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2 (3) Fall 2014 Colleen Montgomery University of Texas at Austin   Like many film history instructors, I find that most of my students enter the classroom with both a wealth of personal experiences with … Continue reading →

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Case Studies of Local Film Exhibition: An Undergraduate Research Assignment

Posted on October 14, 2014 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2(3) Fall 2014 Jonah Horwitz and Andrea Comiskey University of Wisconsin – Madison     In 2012, we developed a research assignment for a large undergraduate lecture course, taught by Jonah, on US film history … Continue reading →

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Teaching Film and Media Studies in Liberal Arts Colleges/ Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2 (2) Spring 2014

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Julie Wilson

              Teaching Film and Media Studies in Liberal Arts Colleges Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2 (2) Spring 2014 Co-editors: Elizabeth Nathanson and Carol Donelan     Table of Contents Understandably Critical (of Neoliberalism) … Continue reading →

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Understandably Critical (of Neoliberalism)

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Julie Wilson

   Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014  Maurizio Viano  Wellesley College     The paradox in the images evoked by the first two bullets in this dossier’s call for proposals is so striking as to bear scrutiny: on … Continue reading →

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What Is World Cinema?: Structuring the Course

Posted on February 12, 2014 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2(1) Winter 2014 Michael Talbott University of Vermont   While many colleges and universities offer world cinema courses, few seem to share a common understanding of the term. A world cinema course at one university … Continue reading →

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Teaching Non-Western Cinemas in a Multiracial, Developing World Context, or What to Do When Your Students Are “the World”

Posted on February 12, 2014 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(1) Winter 2014  Christopher Meir  University of the West Indies, St. Augustine   Most pedagogy of non-western cinemas such as those of Asia, Africa and South America assumes certain distances between students and the subject … Continue reading →

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Contrapuntal Reading in World Cinema

Posted on February 12, 2014 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(1) Winter 2014  Eralda L. Lameborshi  Stephen F. Austin State University   The discomfort with foreign films is, at least to a significant degree, the result of cultural differences between students in an American college … Continue reading →

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Not Many, but One: A Case-Study Approach to Teaching World Cinema

Posted on February 12, 2014 by tony

  Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(1) Winter 2014  Jeffrey Middents  American University   When I started teaching a single-semester course called “The Cinemas of Latin America” in 2001, I replicated a regionally oriented model related to the study of … Continue reading →

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