ࡱ> &('} sbjbj55 .$__s||B:Jln0ByH",7RB| : ENGL 771/8.011: Postmodernism in Film & Lit Summer I, 2008 Tom Slater Required Texts: Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School. Paul Auster, City of Glass. Cristina Degli-Esposti, Postmodernism in the Cinema. Trey Ellis, Platitudes. Christian Moraru, Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning. Masud Zavarzadeh & Donald Morton, Theory, (Post)Modernity, Opposition: An Other Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Course Goals: To gain an understanding of postmodernism and reach conclusions about how it communicates, how it is present in our lives and culture, and what significance it has. Assignments: Two short essays (based on a choice of questions) and three or four short informal responses due the final week of class, 10% each. Small group presentations, 20%. For this presentation, your group will have an entire class session. You might choose a film, play, short story, television production or music video(s), art works, and/or other pieces with which to work. You might also focus on a specific writer, artist, or filmmaker or on a specific genre or theme such as gender, social, or political issues. You can work with texts discussed in our readings that we are not scheduled to work with in class. For your presentation, you should work to involve everyone in your discussion. You might do this by providing everyone with short readings a day or two before your presentation, using short readings for everyone to work with in class, and/or using film clips. You should have your own ideas about what makes the work(s) or artist(s) you are discussing postmodern and what you believe the work achieves. What significance does it have in relation to its times and the issues with which it is concerned? In what ways, if any, does it get us to look at ourselves and our world differently? Consider what handouts, discussion questions, or other devices such as small-group work you would use to help students see these texts or artists as you have and develop their own conclusions. Perhaps they will develop new insights that can add to your own. Help us all to become more knowledgeable about the subject youve selected by getting everyone involved. Research essay, 50%. You should aim to produce an essay of approximately ten pages, though a longer work is acceptable if you find it necessary for clearly explaining your argument. Your choice of topics is the same as for the presentations, and you may use the same topic if it is acceptable for the rest of your group (I will not allow duplicate research topics). Your argument should focus on what you feel is the significance or achievement of the artist or work you have chosen. You might do this by considering your subject in relation to its times, specific cultural or political issues, its use of some aspect of postmodernism, or some combination of these. You should have your topic by June 17 and an outline or rough draft (partial or whole) by June 25. Office Hours: M-R, 12:00-1:00, or by appt. Office: Sutton 345. Ph.: 724-357-4879. Email: tslater@iup.edu. Assignment Schedule: June 2: Film: Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989). 3: Reading: Degli-Esposti, 3-16, 73-89. 4: Film: A nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983). 5: Reading: Degli-Esposti, 113-30. Assign research essay. Weekend Viewing: A Room With a View (James Ivory, 1986). June 9: Reading: Degli-Esposti, 141-66. 10: Film: Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 219-30). 11: Reading: Degli-Esposti, 219-30. 12: Reading: Degli-Esposti, 61-72. Form groups for presentations. Assign short essay #1. June 16: Reading: Moraru, 3-37. Short essay #1 due. 17: Reading: Auster; Moraru, 39, 67-82. Topics for research papers due. 18: Reading: Ellis; Moraru, 83-85, 113-25. 19: Reading: Acker; Moraru, 127-28, 143-54, 167-73. Assign short essay #2. June 23: Short essay #2 due. June 25: Plans for or rough drafts of research papers due. June 23-26: Class presentations. June 30: Reading: Zavarzadeh, 1-102. July 1: Reading: Zavarzadeh, 105-63. 2: Reading: Zavarzadeh, 165-229. 3: Research essays due. Final discussion. 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