Summer Session I
MTuWThF, 11:45 AM-1:00 PM, BH 337
Required film screening: MW, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, WH 101

Fulfills COLL A&H Requirement
Carries COLL Intensive Writing Credit

Instructor: Joan Hawkins
E-Mail: jchawkin@indiana.edu
Office: 800 E. 3rd St. – room 211
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 affect, distribution, film noir, courtroom dramas, reality
television, race and the internet.

Screenings will include Million Dollar Baby; Day Night, Day Night;
Kathryn Bigelow’s Blue Steel, the reality show Black/White,
experimental shorts, Helen Leavitt’s 1948 documentary In the Street,
the Sundance courtroom drama series The Staircase.  There will also
be a presentation on Second Life.

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

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