WEEK 1 seeing = believing?
Feb 12 Screening: Steamboat Bill Jr.
Feb 13: Readings
- Gunning, Tom. “An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator.” Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film. Ed. Linda Williams. Rutgers University Press, 1994: 114-133.
- T.W. Adorno Culture Industry Reconsidered (Audience Studies Reader)
- http://fuckyeahbusterkeaton.tumblr.com/
WEEK 2 theorizing histories of spectatorship
Feb 19: Screening: Singing in the Rain
Feb 20:
- Fuller “Boundaries of Participation: The Problem of Spectatorship and American Film Audiences, 1905-1930.” Film and History 20:3 (1991): 75-86.
- Miriam Hansen, Hansen Babel and Babylon 23 -44
- Sumiko Higashi on Ben Singer’s “Manhattan Nickelodeons: New Data on Audiences and Exhibitors”, Cinema Journal 35.3 (Spring, 1996), pp. 72-74.
- http://heckyesgenekelly.tumblr.com/
- Recommended: Giuliana Bruno Streetwalking around Plato’s Cave October Vol. 60, (Spring, 1992), pp. 110-129
- Recommended: Ben Singer Manhattan Nickelodeons: New Data on Audiences and Exhibitors Ben Singer Cinema Journal Vol. 34, No. 3 (Spring, 1995), pp. 5-35
WEEK 3 desire and spectatorship
Feb 26 Screening: The Son of the Sheik
Feb 27
- Miriam Hansen, Babel and Babylon, Chapter 12
- Richard Dyer, Heavenly Bodies Film Stars and Society, Introduction. dyer — heavenlybodies
- http://rudyvalentinolove.tumblr.com/