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Course Schedule | Course Syllabus

 

12 - 14 Jan

Introduction and Overview

W 12

Syllabus and Course Policies | Enchanted (Disney, 2007)

F 14

Workshop: Writing the Weekly Analysis Paper

19 Jan - 11 Feb

Recognizing Genres and Understanding Genre Criticism
W 19 - F 21

Identifying Genres | Bordwell and Thompson | Swing Time (RKO, 1935)

W 26 - F 28

The Genre Film | Warshow | Shane (Paramount, 1953)

W 2 Feb - F 4

Hollywood and the Genre in Transition | Maltby | The Wild Bunch (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1969)

W 9 - F 11

Parody, Transformation, and the Ritual View of Genre | Schatz | Blazing Saddles (Warner Bros., 1974)

16 Feb - 4 Mar

Gendered Genres and the Limits of Genre Criticism

W 16 - F 18

Melodrama and Ideological Criticism | Klinger | Written on the Wind (Universal, 1957)

W 23 - F 25

Film Noir and Postwar Masculinity | Neale | Kiss Me Deadly (UA, 1955)

W 2 Mar - F 4 Genre and Contested Criticism: The Case of the "Woman's Film" | Altman | Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros., 1945)
W 9 - F 11 Mar SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

16 Mar - 8 Apr

The Semiotics of Genre

W 16 - F 18

The Semantic-Syntactic Approach | Moine ch 2 | Severance (Magnolia, 2007)

W 23 - F 25

Destabilization and Integration: The Social Functions of Genre | Moine ch 3 | Face/Off (Paramount, 1997)

W 30 - F 1 Apr

Intertextuality and Hybridity | Moine ch 4 | Scream (Dimension, 1996)

W 6 - F 8

Heterogeneity, Transculture, and Globalization | Moine ch 5 | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968; Paramount, 1969)

13 - 29 Apr

Television Genres - Section Facilitated by Sharon Wight

W 13 - F 15 The Return of the Evening Soap Opera | BeailThe Gilmore Girls (WB, 2000-07)
W 20 - F 22

For Wednesday: Reality Television and Participatory Culture | For Wednesday: Magder; Jenkins;

For Friday: LOST and Participatory Culture | Banks and Tankel |  Lost (ABC, 2004-10)

W 27 - F 29 Hybrid Theory and Textual Poaching  | Jenkins; Ouellette | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB/UPN, 1997-2003)
F 6 May

Scheduled Final Exam Time 1 - 3 PM  

 

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