WEEK 4 audiences/stars
March 5: Screening: Prix de Beauté
March 6: [No class meeting as I am away at a conference; use this time to meet with your groups to finalize your presentations], but we’ll still have our virtual discussion of the readings & screenings on moodle]
- Hastie, Amelie. “Louise Brooks: Star Witness.” Cinema Journal 36.3 (1997): 3-24.
- Jackie Stacey, Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (Audience Studies Reader)
- Explore: http://www.pandorasbox.com/
WEEK 5 (the threat of) collective audience pleasure
March 12 Screening: Hard Days Night
March 13: Class presentations of Middlebury Moviegoing Research Groups
- Barbara Ehrenreich et. al. “Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (Audience Studies Reader)
- Louisa Stein, “#bowdown to Your New God.” Companion to Media Authorship. Blackwell-Wiley, forthcoming. #bowdown to your new god
- Lessig, Intro Lessig Remix Intro
- http://www.candicebreitz.net/ [Spend some time watching these videos! I highly recommend Queen]
Friday March 15th midnight individual Middlebury Local History of Moviegoing papers due to Moodle. [Due date extended]
Presentation: Moviegoing Middlebury: Campus Culture 1950-1990
Week 6 textual poaching
March 19 Screening: Supernatural Pilot 1.1; Big Bang Theory, selected episodes season 2
March 20
- Textual Poachers Intro & Chapter 1 Get a Life: Fans, Poachers, Nomads
- Jonathan Gray, Cornell Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. “Introduction: Why Study Fans?”
- Busse, Kristina and Karen Hellekson. “Introduction” In Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. 2006.
- Hellekson, Karen and Kristina Busse. “Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy.”
Presentation: History of the Town Hall Theater
Tentative Skype Visit from Kristina Busse