Teaching Film

by Fischer, Lucy; Petro, Patrice; Anderson, Mark Lynn (CON); Andrew, Dudley (CON); Aronson, Michael (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781603291156
• ISBN10: 1603291156
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-15
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies continues to expand and thrive, attracting new scholars and fresh ideas, direction, and research. Given the dynamism of the field, experienced and beginning instructors alike need resources for bringing the study of film into the classroom. This volume will help instructors conceptualize contemporary film studies in pedagogical terms. The first part of the volume features essays on theory and on representation, including gender, race, and sexuality. Contributors then examine the geographies of cinema and offer practical suggestions for structuring courses on national, regional, and transnational film. Several essays focus on interdisciplinary approaches, while others describe courses designed around genre (film noir, the musical), mode (animation, documentary, avant-garde film), or the formal elements of film, such as sound, music, and mise-en-scène. The volume closes with a section on film and media in the digital age, in which contributors discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by access to resources, media convergence, and technological developments in the field.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: "Memories of Underdevelopment"	p. 1
Theory and Representation
Introduction	p. 15
Teaching Film Auteurs	p. 19
Teaching Film Theory	p. 26
Teaching Feminist Film Theory; or, Women and Film	p. 40
Teaching African American Film: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics	p. 51
Teaching Queer Cinema with Independent Media	p. 63
Teaching Film and Disability Studies	p. 74
Geographies of Cinema
Introduction	p. 89
Teaching Indian Cinema	p. 92
Teaching Latin American and Caribbean Cinema	p. 101
Teaching Accented Cinema as a Global Cinema	p. 112
Reconsidering New German Cinema	p. 119
Teaching the Ends of Eastern European Cinema	p. 126
Teaching Japanese Cinema	p. 134
Teaching World Cinema	p. 145
Interdisciplinarities
Introduction	p. 161
Literature and Film-Not Literature on Flim	p. 164
Teaching Cinema across Languages	p. 177
Teaching Film and Trauma	p. 187
Teaching Film Historiography	p. 197
Teaching Film Law and Policy	p. 209
Genre and Mode
Introduction	p. 221
Teaching Film Genre(s)	p. 224
Teaching Futurist Dystopian Cinema	p. 233
Teaching the Documentary Film	p. 242
Teaching Animation	p. 253
Teaching the Avant-Garde Film	p. 261
Style and Craft
Introduction	p. 275
Teaching Film Music	p. 278
Teaching Film Sound	p. 288
Teaching Film and Mise-en-Scène	p. 299
Teaching Film through Stardom	p. 311
Teaching Film Studies in a Production Context	p. 323
Teaching Screenwriting as Criticism	p. 337
Film and Media in the Digital Age
Introduction	p. 347
Teaching Media Specificity in an Age of Convergence	p. 349
Teaching Film in the Age of Digital Transformation	p. 357
Teaching with DVD Add-Ons	p. 364
Teaching US Television in an Era of Convergence	p. 376
Teaching Film and the Internet	p. 384
Notes on Contributors	p. 397
Index	p. 403
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