Schedule

 
 
Schedule of Readings and Assignments

 

 
 
 

W 6-Jan 1st class — “Method” & “Object” of study

R 7-Jan Technical Setup: Blogs and UF web hosting (Plaza)

 
F 8-Jan Read & Discuss: Internet Invention Introduction (1-16)

 
 
M 11-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 1 (18-42): “Mystory”

        Discuss: Part One “Career Discourse”

 
W 13-Jan read: Bobby Rabyd, Sunshine ’69 (1996) Discuss: New Media / Hypertext

R 14-Jan

      Screening: Y tu mamá también (Dir. Cuarón, 2001; 105 min.)

 
F 15-Jan Discuss: Method: Films & Project 1 (1st Component)

      Due: First Blog Entry

 
 
M 18-Jan No Classes—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

W 20-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 2 (43-68): “Image”

 
R 21-Jan Discuss: “Attunement,” Wabi-Sabi, “Illumination” (Ulmer)

      Screening: The Virgin Suicides (Dir. Coppola, 1999; 97 min.)

 
F 23-Jan Due: Exercise 1 Assignment (“Obtuse Meanings” & “Illumination”)

 
 
M 25-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”

          Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse”

 
W 27-Jan Read:

 
R 28-Jan

      Screening: Sink or Swim (Dir. Friedrich, 1990, 48 mins) & Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 2007)

 
F 29-Jan Discuss:

          Mediating Family-Memory-Home; plus Project 1 (2nd Component)

 
 
M 01-Feb Internet Invention Chapter 4 (96-122): “Cosmogram”

          Discuss: Mapping Diegesis & “Popcycle”

 
W 03-Feb W 03-Feb Read: Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky (Sharif Ezzat) & The Cape (J.R. Carpenter)

 
R 04-Feb Screening:

      My Winnipeg (Dir. Maddin, 2007; 80 mins.) & Sigur Ros—Heima (Dir. DeBlois, 2007) (clips)
       

 
F 05-Feb Due: Exercise 2 (“Memory Glimpse” & “Mapping Popcycle”)

 
 
M 08-Feb Spiegelman: Maus I (“My Father Bleeds History,” 1986)

          Discuss: Narrative & Image

 
W 10-Feb Maus I

R 11-Feb Maus II (“And Here My Troubles Began,” 1991)

          Exercise: “Micro Scenes” (p.92)

 
F 12-Feb Maus II Discuss: “Relay” (for Project)

 
 
M 15-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Slipping Glimpse

      Presentations: Groups 1 & 2

 
W 17-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Vniverse

        Presentations: Groups 3 & 4
         
        Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

 
R 18-Feb “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 1
 
F 19-Feb Due: Project 1 Discuss: Reflection and Prospective

 
 
M 22-Feb Internet Invention Chapter 5 (126-53): “Interface Impressions”

          Discuss: Part Three “Entertainment”

 
W 24-Feb Internet Invention Chapter 6 (155-77): “Cyberpidgin”

          Discuss: Discourse & Ideology

 
R 25-Feb Screening:

      Brick (Dir. Johnson, 2005; 110 min.)

 
F 26-Feb Attend UF Digital Assembly Conference: “Futures of Digital Studies”

      Meet in 282 Reitz (1:55-3:10pm)
       
      Due: Weekly Blog Entry (Friday PM)

 
 
M 01-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 7 (180-209): “History (School)”

          Discuss: Part Four “Community”

 
W 03-Mar Due: Exercise 3 (“High Concept” p. 198) Discuss: Project Two

R 04-Mar Screening:

      Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Dir. Gondry, 2006; 103 min. )

 
F 05-Mar Spring Break (No Class)

M 08-Mar Spring Break
W 10-Mar Spring Break Extra Credit: Blog Entry (optional)
R 11-Mar Spring Break
F 12-Mar Spring Break

 
 
M 15-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 8 (210-26): “The Bar (Street)”

      Discuss: Community Discourse (review Chp 7)

 
W 17-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 8 (227-43): “The Bar (Street)”

      Discuss: Project 2 (2nd component)

 
R 18-Mar Screening: Pulp Fiction (Dir. Tarantino, 1994)

 
F 19-Mar Jacqueline Goss, “Solstice” (2007) — Discuss: Relay Films for Project 2

              (last 3 in class plus external / personal examples from “cultural database”).

 
 
 
M 22-Mar Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)

      Presentation: Group 3

 
W 25-Mar Jason Nelson, Dreamaphage

      Presentation: Group 2

 
R 26-Mar “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 2

 
F 27-Mar Due: Project 2

 
 
M 29-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 9 (246-62): “Emblem”

      Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”

 
W 31-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 9 (261-77): “Emblem”

      Discuss: “Template” & Relay: Tarkovsky

 
R 01-Apr Screening:

      Synechdoche, New York (2008)

 
F 02-Apr Due: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p. 223 & “Being Singular” p.241)

 
 
M 05-Apr Internet Invention Chapter 10 (278-98): “Ideal/Value”

 
W 07-Apr M.D. Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001)   &   Judd Morrisey, The Jew’s Daughter (2000)

 
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference)

 
F 09-Apr Due: Exercise 5 (“Automatic Emblems” & “Default Moods”)

 
 
M 12-Apr Internet Invention (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?”

      Presentation: Group 4

 
W 14-Apr Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)

      Presentation: Group 1

 
R 15-Apr “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 3

 
F 16-Apr Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT 2.0   &   Jim Andrews, Nio (2001)

 
M 19-Apr “Studio” / Praxis / Review

 
W 21-Apr “Studio” / Praxis / Review (last class)

 
R 22-Apr No Class—Complete Project 3

 
F 23-Apr Due: Project 3

 
 

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