Final Course grades have been posted. See Course Documents below.
Course Documents |
Syllabus -- includes the
Short Film assignment Final Exam: Take Home Portion (QUESTION ONE) Course Grades -- Use the last 3 digits of your UIN (the number with all the zeroes) to find the row with your grades. |
Class Notes |
| Date | Topic/Assignments | Readings/Films | Publicly Available Online? | Blackboard |
Library Reserve |
| Sept 8 | What is Politics? | Read: Donahue, “46 1/2 Conceptions of Politics” | |||
| Watch: Triumph of the Will (104 min) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Watch: Seven Up (39 min) | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Read: Seven Up, pp. 1-55 | |||||
| Sept 15 | What is documentary and what is propaganda? | Read: Documentary Film, pp. 1-77 and 125-146 | |||
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Watch: Inside
North Korea (46 min) |
Yes | No | Ordered | ||
| Watch: Control Room (84 min) | Yes | No | Ordered | ||
| Sept 22 | A Propaganda Model of Politics | Read: New Documentary, pp. 1-46 | |||
| Watch: Manufacturing Consent (167 min) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Sept 29 | The Documentarian and the Subject | Watch: 21 Up (100 min) | No | Yes | Yes |
|
Watch: 49 Up
(135 min) |
No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Read: Seven Up, pp. 55-117 | |||||
| Oct 6 | Ethical
Implications of Documentary Film ***STORYBOARD DUE*** |
Watch: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (181 min) | Yes:Part I | Part II | Yes | Yes |
| Oct 13 |
"In Their Own Words" |
Watch: Jesus
Camp (87 min) |
Yes (In 9 Parts) | Yes | Yes |
|
Watch: Israel’s
Next War? (55 min) |
Yes | No | No | ||
| Watch: Obsession (60 min) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Oct 20 |
Narrators and Journeys: Political Aspects
|
Read: New
Documentary, pp. 47-119 |
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Watch: Sicko
(123 min) |
Yes (6 parts on a shady site) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Watch: America’s Heart and Soul (84 min) | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Oct 27 |
Electoral Propaganda |
Watch:
Electoral Propaganda (about 120 min) |
Yes: Part I | Part II | Part III | No | No |
| Read: New Documentary: pp. 155-184 | |||||
| Nov 3 |
Tactical Criticism |
Watch: American Dream (100 min) | No | Yes | Yes |
|
Watch: No End in Sight (102
min) |
Yes (10 parts) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Read: New Documentary: pp. 120-154 | |||||
| Nov 10 |
Radical Dissent *** ROUGH CUT DUE*** |
Watch: Waco -
The Rules of Engagement (136 min) |
Yes: Part I | Part II | Yes | Yes |
| Watch: This is What Democracy Looks Like (72 min) | Yes (subtitled in Spanish) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Read: New Documentary, pp. 185-218 | |||||
| Nov 17 |
Science for Voters *** SHORT FILM DUE ON NOV 23*** |
Read: Documentary Film, pp. 77-95 and 117-124 | |||
| Watch: An Inconvenient Truth (94 min) | Yes (subtitled in Vietnamese) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Watch: Not Evil Just Wrong (90 min) | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Read: Lakatos (Online) | |||||
| Nov 24 | No Class |
No class – Thanksgiving holidays Watch: Short Films on Blackboard |
No | No | No |
| Dec 1 |
Representations of Crime |
Watch: Scared Straight! (52 min -- you are not required to watch 20 Years Later, even though it's part of the same file). |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Watch: Capturing the Friedmans (107 min) | Yes (12 parts, starts about 2 mins late) | Yes | Yes | ||
|
Watch: Cochise
County, U.S.A. (69 min) |
Yes (Shady site) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Read: New Documentary, pp. 221-252 | |||||
| Dec 8 | Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism | Watch: Children of Beslan (60 min) | Yes (6 parts, under a different title) | Yes | No |
|
Watch: Taxi to
the Dark Side (106 min) |
Yes (Someone added anti-NATO propaganda just before the film) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Watch: The Oath (90 min) | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Dec 15 | ***FINAL EXAM -- QUESTION 1 DUE*** | Prepare Answer to Question 1 |