Note: All parts of the final project must be completed and turned in on time for you to receive credit. All parts of the course must be completed and turned in on time to pass the course.
PLEASE NOTE that this schedule is tentative and will be probably be revised regularly during the semester. You may wish to print out a copy, but do check back with the website regularly to double check assignments.
August 26 The (Dis)Place(ment) of Film; Film as psychic allegory, as technoallegory. The Ring (screening Tuesday E1E3 TUR 2322).
" 28 Discussion of The Ring;
psychic imprinting and photography; Ted Serios.
September 2 This is your wake up call: Ronell, The Telephone book, "A User's Manual" and dial up assigned index entry (See assignment here); Derrida, The Postcard, footnote about a crank call from "Martini" Heidegger on p. 21. Mothman Prophecies (screening Tuesday E1E3 TUR 2322).
Recommended: Sigmund Freud, "Psychoanalysis and Telepathy," Standard Edition, Vol xviii; Freud, "Dreams and Telepathy," xviii; Jacques Derrida, "Telepathy," trans. Nicholas Royle, 1988); Freud on encryption in "Mourning and Melancholia."
" 4 Discussion of Mothman Prophecies ; contacting the dead via audiotape, radio, telephone, tv, and computers; EVP (electronic voice phenomena). Film clip workshop led by me. Tutorial on imovie and image capturing from DVDs using The Mothman as an example. Read the imovie pages in advance at http://www.image.ufl.edu/help/imovie/. See also the Bryn Mawr webpages on Writing with Film.
" 9 Bugging Out: Ronell, The Telephone Book, pages 251-71 and 364-67; FearDotCom (screening Tuesday E1E3 TUR 2322).
" 11 Film clip annotations (on a clip from The Ring, The Mothman Prophecies, or Feardotcom) due.
" 16 Paranoia and homosexuality---occult and media: Freud, "Psycho-analytic Notes on an Autobiograhical Account of a Case of Paranoia, " in Three Case Studies, pp. 81-155; Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising and David Lynch, Blue Velvet (screening).
Recommended: Jacques Lacan, The Seminars, Book III: The Psychoses, pp. 25-43 and 89-116.
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" 23 Dr. Daniel Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, pp. 45-113; Bernard Siegert, Relays, pp. 199-204; Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks, pp. 291-98; Videodrome (screening; Scanners and Existenz recommended); (Frederic Jameson on Videodrome in The Geopolitical Aesthetic and Freud, "The Loss Of Reality In Neurosis And Psychosis" (1924), both recomended)
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" 30 Freud, "The Uncanny"; David Lynch, Lost Highway (Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are recommended; Slavoj book on Lost Highway, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime, recommended)
" October 2
" 7 Kittler, "Romanticism--Psychoanalysis--Film: A History of the Double" and "The World of the Symbolic"; Fight Club (screening)
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" 14 Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, pp.xxxix-38; 85-97; Psycho (screening)--shower as eye as camera / bathtub drain).
" 16 Library research trip.
" 21 Continue discussion of Psycho; Detour (screening)--film noir; telephone cord as strangulation; (Double Indemnity recommended)
" 23 (in class clips from Brian de Palma's neo-noir Femme Fatale and The Thirteenth Floor)
28 Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, 115-54; 167-75; 221-31; 263; Psychometropolis: Dark City (screening) (Metropolis recommended)
" 30 (clips in class from Metropolis )
November 4 annotated bibliography due (no class); Perfect Blue (screening).
" 6 The Telephone Book *69s us: pp. 109-55
" 11 Holiday
" 13 Prospectus due; Psycho-Marxism / Periodization: Blade Runner (no screening due to the holiday on November 11 so see it on your own before class) (The Matrix recommended).
" 18 The Telephone Book *69s us one last time: pp. 178-223 Brazil (screening)
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" 25 Schedule for notes on films and articles due (email it to me); your films and articles (on your own).
" 27 Thanksgiving
December 2 Notes on first film and two articles due by email. (Turn in copies of your articles and your notes.) Click here for more info.
" 4 t.b.a Notes on second film and second two articles due. (Turn in copies of your articles and your notes.) Click here for more info.
" 9 Draft due; class evaluations; open discussion
" 11 Your comments on drafts of two other students (must be emailed to the student and cc'd to me).
" 17. Final draft and portfolio (prospectus, schedule for notes on films and articles, draft, responses to your draft by two students; copies of your four articles and your notes) due.
Note: All parts of the final project must be completed for you to receive credit. All parts of the course must be completed to pass the course.