Teaching film / edited by Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Lucy.

Petro, Patrice, 1957-

Series:

Options for teaching ; 35.

Options for teaching, 1079-2562 ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Study and teaching (Higher).

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, [2012]

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: "memories of underdevelopment" / Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro

Theory and representation. Teaching film auteurs / Timothy Corrigan

Teaching film theory / Edward Branigan

Teaching feminist film theory, or, women and film / Maureen Turim

Teaching African American film: race, politics, and aesthetics / Paula J. Massood

Teaching queer cinema with independent media / Patricia White

Teaching film and disability studies / Raphael Raphael

Geographies of cinema. Teaching Indian cinema / Neepa Majumdar

Teaching Latin American and Caribbean cinema / Cristina Venegas

Teaching accented cinema as a global cinema / Hamid Naficy

Reconsidering new German cinema / Eric Rentschler

Teaching the ends of Eastern European cinema / Zoran Samardzija

Teaching Japanese cinema / David Desser

Teaching world cinema / Dudley Andrew

Interdisciplinarities. Literature and film-not literature on film / Garrett Stewart

Teaching cinema across languages / Natasa d'urovicova

Teaching film and trauma / Adam Lowenstein

Teaching film historiography / Mark Lynn Anderson

Teaching film law and policy / Peter Decherney

Genre and mode. Teaching film genre(s) / Steven Cohan

Teaching futurist dystopian cinema / E. Ann Kaplan

Teaching the documentary film / Michael Renov

Teaching animation / Mark Langer

Teaching the avant-garde film / Scott Nygren

Style and craft. Teaching film music / Caryl Flinn

Teaching film sound / James F. Lastra

Teaching film and mise-en-scene / Anne Rutherford

Teaching film through stardom / Adam Knee

Teaching film studies in a production context / Frank P. Tomasulo

Teaching screenwriting as criticism / Tasha Oren

Film and media in the digital age. Teaching media specificity in an age of convergence / Anne Friedberg

Teaching film in the age of digital transformation / Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Teaching with DVD add-ons / Pat Brereton

Teaching us television in an era of convergence / Tara McPherson

Teaching film and the Internet / Michael Aronson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603291149

1603291148

9781603291156

1603291156

OCLC:

772449977