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Aug. 26 Introduction
Screening: eXistenZ (1999) David Cronenberg 97 min
Week 2: Immersion
Gonzalo Frasca, “Ludology Meets Narratology”
Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture”
Screening: The Game (1997) David Fincher 128 min
Week 3: Memory I
Sep. 9
Read Galloway, Gaming
Bolter and Grusin, Remediation (excerpt)
Screening: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry 108 min
Week 4: Memory II
Sep 16
Read Galloway, Gaming
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Screening: Johnny Mnemonic (1995) David Longo 128 min
Week 5: Race
Sep 23
Julian Bleecker, "Getting the Reality You Deserve"
Screening: Strange Days (1995) Kathryn Bigelow 145 min
Week 6: Agency
Sep. 30
Jonathan Crary, “Techniques of the Observer”
Janet Murray, “Agency” from Hamlet on the Holodeck
Screening: Being John Malkovich (1999) Spike Jonze 112 min
Week 7: Bodies
Oct. 7
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media Intro. and Ch. 1
Screening: Videodrome (1983) David Cronenberg 87 min
Week 8: Remix
Oct. 14
Lev Manovich, “Remixing and Remixability”
Screenings: Unsere Afrikareise, Peter Kubelka (1966) 12 min
A Movie (1958) Bruce Conner 12 min
Week 9: Space
Oct 21
Read Willis, New Digital Cinema
Screenings: Serene Velocity (1970) Ernie Gehr 23 min
Production Stills (1970) Morgan Fisher 12 min
Week 10: Post-linearity
Oct 28
Read Willis, New Digital Cinema
Screening: Run Lola Run (1998) Tom Tykwer 80 min
Week 11: Temporality
Nov. 4
William Uricchio, “Technologies of Time”
Read Willis, New Digital Cinema
Screening:
Eureka (1974) Ernie Gehr 38 min
Week 12: Scopophilia
Nov. 11
Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Screening: Thomas in Love (2000) Renders 97 min
Week 13: Technology
Nov. 18
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism" from Discipline and Punish
Screening: Minority Report (1970) Spielberg 145 min
Week 14: Nov 25 – Thanksgiving – no class!
Week 15: Ubiquity
Dec. 2
Howard Rheingold, “Mobile and Open: A Manifesto”
Screening: Enemy of the State (1998) Tony Scott 131 min
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