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theories of spectatorship

February, 2013

  1. required books

    February 6, 2013 by Louisa Stein

    Will Brooker and Deborah Jermyn, eds. The Audience Studies Reader. Routledge, 2002. Available at the Middlebury College Bookstore.

    Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers. Routledge, 2012. [You must have the 20th anniversary reissue, not the 1992 original.] Available at the Middlebury College Bookstore.

    All other readings will be linked from the course wordpress within the month by month breakdown of readings due.


  2. moodle & meta

    February 6, 2013 by Louisa Stein

    see above (or click here) for the specifics of the moodle meta weekly writing; here’s a handy link to moodle for meta & assignment submission


  3. our class tumblr

    February 6, 2013 by Louisa Stein

    is here

    email me at louisas@middlebury.edu if you need the password

    you don’t need to limit your tumbling to the week you’re the assigned curator. All additional class-related tumbling is extra credit! Just be sure to tag your posts with your initials, so I can see it’s you.

    if you’d like to post to the class tumblr from a different tumblr account, you can submit a post, just email me for the submission password.

     


  4. Grading Breakdown

    February 5, 2013 by Louisa Stein

    for clarity & easy access

    Attendance & Participation (with emphasis on moodle weekly collective meta)  = 30%

    Reading Notes = 10%

    Group Led Reading Discussion/Tumblr Curation  = 10%

    Local History Research on early moviegoing in Midd (Group Research Project/Individual Write Up) = 20%

    Final Projects/Papers  = 30%


  5. welcome to theories of spectatorship, audiences, and fandom

    February 5, 2013 by Louisa Stein

    In this course we will explore a range of theoretical approaches to the study of spectatorship and media audiences. How has the viewer been theorized throughout the history of film, television, and digital media? How have theoretical understandings of the relationship between viewer and media changed in the digital age? How have gender, class, and race informed cultural notions of media audiences from silent cinema to today? We will consider key theoretical readings and approaches to studying spectators, viewers, audiences, fans, and anti-fans across the history of the moving image.