Category Archives: Critical Pedagogy

Videographic Exercises and Radical Pedagogy in the Classroom

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Catherine Fowler “You are in darkness. On the small rectangle of the editing table, imagery goes by. Slightly clenched on the control, … Continue reading

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Audiovisual Essays as Empowering Pedagogical Tools for Students of Film Practice

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy Sian Mitchell As media educators are coming to understand, through developing scholarship, audiovisual essays enable the integration of theory and practice in … Continue reading

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Authenticating Assessment through the Video Essay–A Pilot Case Study

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy  Sean Redmond and Joanna Tai, Deakin University Within the Higher Education sector there is an increased focus upon authentic assessment where learning … Continue reading

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Culture as Nature: Rethinking the Audiovisual Essay as Pedagogy

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (3) Not Another Brick in the Wall: The Audiovisual Essay and Radical Pedagogy  Robert Letizi A pervasive conceit of contemporary digital culture is the notion that information is freely available at all times. The superficial … Continue reading

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A Decade Under the Influence: US Films of the 1970s

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2) Revisiting the Film History Survey Amelie Hastie, Amherst College The Context I teach in an interdepartmental Film and Media Studies (FAMS) program in a small liberal arts college. Our core Film and Media faculty … Continue reading

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Unsettling the Canadian Film History Classroom through Sound

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2) Revisiting the Film History Survey Randolph Jordan, Ryerson University Chronology is the death of the survey course in Canadian film history. We simply do not harbor the necessary richness of early cinema to sustain … Continue reading

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Review: Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett, eds. Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2)Revisiting the Film History SurveyLisa Patti, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Reviewing the recent edited collection Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy provides an opportunity to consider both the potential impact of media studies pedagogy … Continue reading

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The Perks of an Heirloom Armoire: The Film History Survey as a Vehicle to Introduce Diversity to Undergraduate Students

JCMS Teaching Dossier Vol 5 (2)Revisiting the Film History SurveyDiana W. Anselmo, Georgia State University As someone who only entered the US educational system as a graduate student, I have found that conversations about the razing or the revamping of … Continue reading

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Experiments with Pedagogy’s Forms

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Tara McPherson, University of Southern California   “The educator also has the duty of not being neutral”  (Paulo Freire and Horton, 1990: 180).  I have never understood teaching to … Continue reading

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Public education in cinema: Resistance pedagogies for student teachers

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1)  Nisha Thapliyal, University of Newcastle, Australia   I teach at a four-year undergraduate teacher education program in a regional Australian university, close to Sydney. The mission of our teacher education … Continue reading

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