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Introduction to Teen Film
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| August |
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| 23 |
Introduction to course, policies,
etc. |
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| 25 | The Beginnings of Youth on
Film: Exploitation vs. Edification |
| Reading:
Doherty, "American Movies as a Less-than-Mass Medium" (er p.1-12); Corrigan, "Beginning to Think" (Chapter 2) |
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| 30 |
The Social Problem of Youth:
The Twenties and Thirties |
| Reading: Palladino, "The High School Age"(er p. 3-15), "A New Deal for Youth" (er p.35-46); Quart, "A Second Look" (er p.55) | |
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Screening: Boys Town (Taurog, 1938) |
| September |
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| 1 |
Dangerous Impressions |
| Reading: Forman, "The
Path to Delinquency" (er p.179-195); Corrigan, "Film Terms and Topics" (Chapter 3) |
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| Group Discussion Leaders #1 |
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| Writing Workshop |
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| 6 |
The American Teen-Age: The
Fifties |
| Reading: Gilbert,
"A Problem of Behavior" (er p.11-23); Considine, "Cinema of Adolescence"
(er p.118-25) |
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| Screening: Blackboard Jungle (Brooks, 1955) |
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| 8 |
The J.D. |
| Reading: Gilbert,
"Rehearsal for a Crime Wave" (er p.24-41) |
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| Group Discussion Leaders #2 |
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| 13 |
Birth of a Counter-Culture:
The Sixties |
| Reading: Goodman,
"Introduction" to Growing Up Absurd
(er p.3-16) Friedenberg, "Adolescence in an Open Society" (er p.4-26) |
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| Screening:
Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969) |
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| 15 |
Conformity and Anti-Conformity |
| Reading: Palladino,
"Lies My Father Told Me" (er p.207-23); begin reading A Clockwork Orange |
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| Group Discussion Leaders #3 |
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| Formal Response Due | |
| 20 |
Fall-out and Aftermath: The
Seventies |
| Reading:
Burgess, A Clockwork Orange |
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| Screening: Clockwork Orange |
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| 22 |
Post-Vietnam and Global Youth |
| Reading: Burgess,
A Clockwork Orange (cont.) |
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| Group Discussion Leaders #4 |
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| 27 |
Ferris Bueller, You're My
Hero: The Eighties |
| Reading: Gaines, "The Kids in the Basement" (er p.15-38) | |
| Screening:
The Breakfast Club (Hughes, 1985) |
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| 29 |
Teenage Wasteland? |
| Reading: Gaines,
"Us and Them" (er p.90-113) |
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| Group Discussion Leaders #5 |
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October |
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Genre Theory
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| 4 |
Genre Theory and Film |
| Reading: Schatz, "Film Genres and the Genre Film" (er p.14-36) | |
| Introduce Genre Response Paper | |
| 6 | Midterm Exam |
| 11 |
Genre and Teens |
| Reading:
Altman, "Genre and Culture" (er p.328-339) |
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| Screening:
Rebel Without a Cause (Ray,
1955) |
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| 13 |
Themes and Style |
| Reading: Rapping,
"Hollywood's Youth Cult Films" (er p.14-19) |
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| Group Discussion Leaders #6 |
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| LAST DAY to withdraw with grade of W |
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| 18 |
The Impossibility of Genre
Borders |
| Reading: Schatz, "Generic Evolution: Patterns of Increasing Self-Consciousness" (er p.36-41) | |
| Screening:
Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001) |
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| Group Discussion Leaders #7 |
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| 20 |
Restrictions of Genre |
| Reading: Corrigan, "Six Approaches to Writing About Film" (Chapter 4) | |
| Writing Workshop - Draft of Genre Response Due |
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Analyzing the Films
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| 25 |
Analyzing the Teen Film Genre |
| Reading:
Lipsitz, "Genre Anxiety and Racial Representation" (netlibrary) |
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| Screening: Boyz N' the Hood (Singleton, 1991) | |
| Introduction to Research Project |
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| 27 |
The Youth Subculture and the
Market |
| Reading: Doherty,
"The Teenage Marketplace" (er p.32-53) |
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| Genre Response Paper Due |
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November |
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| 1 |
Subcultural Resistance |
| Reading: Hebdige, "Case Studies" (p.23-70) | |
| Screening:
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Peralta,
2001) |
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| 3 | Can Youth Resist? |
| Reading: Hebdige, "The
Function of Subculture" (p.73-89) |
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| 8 |
Where the Girls Are |
| Reading: Lewis, "The Way of the Beautiful" (er p.57-76) | |
| Screening: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Heckerling, 1982) | |
| 10 |
A Moment of Splendor, a Lifetime of Consequences |
| Reading: Douglas,
"Sex and the Single Teenager" (er p.61-81); Corrigan, "Researching the Movies" (Chapter 6) |
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| Writing Workshop |
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| 15 |
Nostalgia |
| Reading:
Shumway, "Rock and Roll Soundtracks and the Production of Nostalgia" (er p.36-51) |
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| Screening:
American Graffitti (Lucas, 1973) |
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| 17 |
Whose fantasy? |
| Reading:
Neale, "Teenpics" (er p.218-22) |
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| Research Proposal Due | |
| 22 |
NO CLASS - Conferences on
Research Papers |
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| 24 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK (no class) |
| 29 |
NO CLASS - Conferences on
Research Papers |
December |
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| 1 |
Draft of Research Paper Due |
| Peer Review |
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| 6 |
LAST DAY OF CLASS |
| Research Paper and Annotated
Bibliography Due |
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| 13 |
Essay Exam from 2-4 pm |