- Each week I will post new material by Monday morning
- Your mission will be to post twice: once in the Comment section below my discussion question, and once in response to a classmate’s comment
- All posts should be your own ideas, unless you credit a source (newspaper article, for example). Your own expertise is more than welcome! Feel free to bring in your vast array of knowledge, as well as connections to texts and films outside the confines of the syllabus.
Week 1
- Introduction. Watch and take notes on Visual Storytelling 101 and How A Director Stages and Blocks A Scene ; Introduction to Shot Types and Camera Movement
- Read: Warsan Shire, “Home”
- Watch: Charlie Chaplin, The Immigrant (1917)
Week 2
- Read: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1958) **Download for easier full screen reading of the pdf**
- Watch: Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
- Read Interview with Kenny Leon
Week 3
- Finish “Raisin” and post for Week 2
- Project 1 Due in Class Google Drive 6/20
Week 4
- Read: John Cheever, “The Swimmer” (1964)
- Watch: Eleanor and Frank Perry, The Swimmer (1968)
Week 5
- Read: James Baldwin, “Letter to My Nephew” (1962)
- Read: “The Book James Baldwin Couldn’t Bring Himself to Write“
- Watch: Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
- To slow down the focus on Baldwin’s language, check out the Film Transcript
- Read Film and Bricolage (entire page)
- Extra Credit: In an additional paragraph, read and respond to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me”
- Project 2/ Final Reflection Due on OpenLab 7/1
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