M-F, 11:45 AM-1:00 PM, BH 337
Required Film Screening: M and W, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Location: TBA

Fulfills COLL A&H Requirement
Carries COLL Intensive Writing Credit

Instructor: Joan Hawkins
E-Mail: jchawkin@indiana.edu
Office: Mottier Hall 113
Phone: 855-1548

In this class we’ll be looking at the way some noted and not-so-
noted critics have written about film and TV.  Readings will include
essays on Hitchcock, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, British TV, reality
television, race and the internet.  Screenings will include Rear
Window, Monsieur Hire, the British TV drama Second Sight, episodes
of Buffy, the reality show  Black/White, experimental shorts by
Sadie Benning, The Daughter of Dracula, Nadja, Hal Hartley’s
Amateur, excerpts from DJ Spooky’s Birth of a Nation remix and a PBS
documentary that is still in post production.

Books:
Timothy Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing About Film 6th edition.
Steven Shaviro, Connected

Course work will include a short paper, a longer paper with complete
revision, a midterm and a final.