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AMERICAN STUDIES. FILM STUDIES. EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE & THEORY. AMERICAN YODAS - MA Programme, Kultur - Summer Term 2008 - Course Leader (CL) Dr. ALAN TAYLOR (Oxon). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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AMERICAN STUDIES
FILM STUDIES
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
& THEORY
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AMERICAN YODAS - MA Programme, Kultur - Summer Term 2008 - Course Leader (CL) Dr. ALAN TAYLOR (Oxon)
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BACKGROUNDAmerican Studies,Literature, Pedagogy, Cinema Studies
BA joint hons, Keele University DIPLOMA, London Film School (pic, 2005) PGCE, The University of Oxford MA, Institute of Education, Uni`London Dr. phil, Filmwissenschaft, Mainz
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1991-2008 TEACHING UK - Oxford & Cherwell College Filmwissenschaft, Mainz University New Bulgarian University, Sofia 2007-2008. The JFK-I, FU Berlin, UG & PG courses in U.S. Film & Media
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Representative, CinemasportsFrankfurt/Main, Mainz & berlin
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WORKSHOP Leader April 2007, Alan Taylor, Guest of:- Media Education Across the Curriculum Teaching the Teachers: Eire, Portugal, Romania,
Turkey, Greece, Italy, Estonia, Sweden… Armin Hottmann, Kulturverein, e.V, Berlin
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Etc…
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American Yodas Course Outline Expectations Outcomes
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AMERICAN STUDIES
FILM STUDIES
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
& THEORY
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THE WEEKS AHEADNOT MANY!
Week 1: HelloWeek2: Film Studies, basics – sequence analysis, key terms, references, linksWeek 3: First Film, Dead Poets Society, part oneWeek 4: First Film, Dead Poets Society, part two
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THE WEEKS AHEADNot many!
Week 5: NO SESSION6: IST Essay is due, AT lead on narrative theory7: AT lead on genre, film form, narrative8: Essays returned, readings, disc Abstracts9: AT lead on learning theories10: 2nd film viewing, part one11: 2nd film viewing, part two12: Second essay due & reflective overview13: Abstracts, Research Papers…
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Attendance Credit. Attendance 80% plus (10 sessions) & Two Essays, two pages each: 1. Analysis of film sequence on website 2. Analysis of film sequence as shown in
class
Q & A?
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Full Grade
Research Paper 20 sides - 5,000 words American Studies, Film, Education Based on Conference Topic See links at American Yodas at:-
http://kinowords.edublogs.org Plus PDF, 4 side Guideline
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Thematic OverviewsHOLLYWOOD
STUDIO SYSTEM 1929 – 1961• Principles of project management• Oligopolist practices/closed market• Censorship Rulings /Ideologies• Studio as mythmaker/definer of US values.
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Hollywood/2 FILM FORM/TECHNIQUE
• Principle of transparency/ Realism• time & space coherence• Continuity editing:- Eye-line matching- 180 degree shooting rule
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Hollywood/3 NARRATIVE
• Time locked (2 hours)• Character based• Logical development of plot to closure• Genre formulae & star system
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Education
LEARNING THEORIES• Behaviorism - Watson, Skinner.. - Gestalt Theory, Berlin Group 1930s• Cognitive theory - Bandura, Bruner, Vygotsky, et al• Heuristics - Giegener...HU, Berlin 2008
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American Studies
CORE PRINCIPLES
• Nation based on constitution• Representation through elections• Voting rights linked to literacy• Literacy dependent on quality of education
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U.S Education. SOME ISSUES & DEBATES
• Access to the Dream? • Whose Dream? Whose rules?• 1980s-1990s Political Correctness• Participatory Citizenship.• Hegemony, Power, Resistance• Key Writer: Henry Giroux
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Hollywood at Class
WHO SPEAKS FOR WHO?
• Realism/Style/• Representation - whose point of view? for who?• Narrative / Genre / • Value systems: Subject of dramamatic conflict.• Questions of cultural appropriation, hegemony,
consent, processes of identification...• Audiences, comodification of resistance?
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AMERICAN STUDIES
FILM STUDIES
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
& THEORY
REMINDER
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Book Suggestions HOLLYWOOD, Maltby KEY Concepts, Cinema Studies, Hayward TEACHING AS A SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY,
Postman & Weingartner Short Guide Writing About Film, Corrigan STORY, Robert McGee
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Reminders… NOT on University Blackboard But here: http://kinowords.
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