IARTS 2MM3
MOVIES AND ME
Winter 2024 · C01
Topics
- Charles Acland, excerpt from “Chapter 1: Blockbuster Ballyhoo,” American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder (2020)
- Excerpts from N+1 “Who Was Barbie? A Symposium”
- Susan J. Napier, “Why Anime,” Anime: Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation (2001)
- Wendy Goldberg, “Transcending the Victim's History: Takahata Isao's Grave of the Fireflies” (2009)
- Richard Dyer, “The Idea of Entertainment,” from Only Entertainment (1992)
- Charles Acland, excerpts from Chapters 2 & 3, American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder (2020)
- bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators” (1992)
- Maryann Erigha, excerpt from “Representation and Racial Hierarchy,” The Hollywood Jim Crow (2019)
- Jason Factora, “Vera Drew on Her Sublimely Bizarre and Surprisingly Heartfelt Joker Parody,” them (2023)
- David Bordwell, excerpt from “Continuing Tradition, By Any Means Necessary,” The Way Hollywood Tells It (2006)
Readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2024
- The outline explicitly states that no textbook is required. Some readings or course materials are supplied through Avenue to Learn; public bibliographic details may be incomplete.