Readings are on reserve at the P&CC.
Reference chapter to be read ASAP: Robert Kolker, “Formal Structures: How Films Tell Their Stories,” Film, form, and culture. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001, 18-63.
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Note: changes were made the schedule on January 27, 2009. The schedule below reflects these changes.
| Week 1 Jan 5/7: Early Film: Mise-en-Scene and Magic |
Screening: Early Film Programme Tom Gunning, “The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde,” 1986, rpt. in Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, ed. Thomas Elsaesser. London: BFI, 1990, pp. 56-62. |
| Week 2 Jan 12/14: Silent Film Comedy and the Vaudeville Stage |
Robert Knopf, “Buster Keaton in the Context of Stage Vaudeville and Silent Film Comedy,” Theatre and Film, pp. 59-72. |
| Week 3 Jan 19/21: Classical Film and The Musical Stage: Technology and Talent |
Annette Kuhn, “The Classic Narrative System,” in The Cinema Book, ed. Pam Cook. London: British Film Institute, 1985, pp. 212-215.
Jane Feuer: “The Self-reflective Musical and the Myth of Entertainment,” Genre: The Musical, ed. Rick Altman, 1981, pp. 159-174. |
| Week 4 Jan 26/28: Method Acting |
Virginia Wright Wexman, “Masculinity in Crisis: Method Acting in Hollywood,” Movie Acting, The Film Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. 127-144.
David Krasner, “Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: Method Acting,” Twentieth Century Actor Training, ed. Alison Hodge. New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 129-147. |
| Week 5 Feb 2/4: No Class |
ESSAY 1 DUE Friday February 6 by 3:45pm at the Drama Office |
| Week 6 Feb 9/11: Theatricality & Cinematic Theatre: |
Amy Petersen Jensen, “The Mediatized Stage: Theatre, Visual Culture, and Presence,” Theatre in a Media Culture: Production, Performance and Perception since 1970. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2007, pp. 11-22. |
| Feb 16-20: | Reading Week |
| Week 7 Feb 23/25: Artistic Modernism |
David Bordwell, “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice,” [1979], in Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, 5th ed., Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 716-24.
Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) in I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader. New York: Grove Press, 1994. |
| Week 8 Mar 2/4: Acting on Stage and Screen |
Special Guest Event Note: Graham Abbey will be visiting class on Monday at 6:30pm, and there will be no Wednesday class this week. |
| ESSAY 2 DUE MAR 11 | |
| Week 9 Mar 9/11: Narrtive Time and Memory |
Harold Pinter, Betrayal (1978) London: Faber and Faber, 1991. |
| Week 10 Mar 16/18: TV News and Solo Theatre: Anna Deavere Smith and the L.A. Riots |
Ian Watson, “News, Television, and Performance: the Case of the Los Angeles Riots,” New Theatre Quarterly, 14:3 (Aug 1998), pp. 210-219. |
| Week 11 Mar 23/25: Wendy Crewson visit |
Special Guest Event Recommended Reading: Perfect Pie by Judith Thompson (Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2000). *Two copies of the play are on reserve at Stauffer. |
| Week 12 Mar 30/Apr 1: New Media and Performance |
See the Screenings Page – some of the videos have articles attached |