Schedule of Readings and Assignments
- subject to change, particularly films and online readings;
— updated 03 January
W 6-Jan 1st class — “Method” & “Object” of study
R 7-Jan Technical Setup: Blogs and UF web hosting (Plaza)
- Screening: The Sopranos (2002)
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: Synechdoche, New York (2008) [ or Adaptation (2002) ]
F 15-Jan Due: First Blog Entry Discuss: Project 1 (1st Component)
M 18-Jan No Classes—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
W 20-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 2 (43-68): “Image”
- plus Caitlin Fisher, These Waves of Girls (2001)
R 21-Jan Screening: Waking Life (Dir. Linklater, 2002) [ or A Scanner Darkly (2006) ]
F 22-Jan Due: Exercise 1 Assignment (“Obtuse Meanings” p.46)
- Discuss: Films & Project 1
M 25-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”
- Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse”
W 27-Jan Shelley Jackson: my body—a Wunderkammer(1997) & The Doll Games (2001)
R 28-Jan Screening: Sink or Swim & Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 2007)
- [ or Rachel Getting Married (2008) ]
F 29-Jan Discuss: Mediating Family-Memory-Home
- Discuss: Project 1 (2nd Component)
M 01-Feb Internet Invention Chapter 4 (96-122): “Cosmogram”
- Discuss: Mapping Diegesis & “Popcycle”
W 03-Feb read: Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)
R 04-Feb Screening: My Winnipeg (Dir. Maddin, 2007); Sigur Ros—Heima (2007)
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: Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT 2.0 (2002)
- Presentations: Groups 1 & 2
W 17-Feb read: Stephanie Strickland, Vniverse
- Presentations: Groups 3 & 4
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) [ or The Chumscrubber (2005) ]
F 26-Feb Attend UF Digital Assembly Conference: “Futures of Digital Studies”
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: Donnie Darko (2000) [ or The Virgin Suicides (1999) ]
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 DeLillo: White Noise (Part I: “Waves and Radiation”)
- Discuss: Postmodernism
W 18-Mar White Noise (Part II: “Airborne Toxic Event”) Discuss: Doxa
R 19-Mar White Noise (Part III: “Dylarama”)
- Discuss: Entertainment & Community (Project 2)
F 20-Mar White Noise (Part III: “Dylarama”) Discuss: “Relay” (for Project)
M 22-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 8 (210-20): “The Bar (Street)”
- Presentation: Group 3
W 25-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 8 (221-45): “The Bar (Street)”
- Presentation: Group 2
R 26-Mar “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 2
F 27-Mar Due: Project 2 Discuss: Reflection and Prospective
M 29-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 9 (246-62): “Emblem”
- Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”
W 31-Mar Internet Invention Chapter 9 (263-77): “Emblem”
- Discuss: “Readymade” vs. Ads
R 01-Apr Screening: Inland Empire (Dir. Lynch, 2006) [ or Memento (2000) ]
F 02-Apr Discuss: Project 3—Refashioning Culture through “Wide Emblem” Method
M 05-Apr read: Jason Nelson, Dreamphage (Parts I & II)
- Discuss: Narrative Threshold
W 07-Apr read: Rob Wittig, The Fall of the Site of Marsha
- Presentation: Group 4
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference)
F 09-Apr Due: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p. 223 & “Being Singular” p.241)
M 12-Apr Internet Invention Chapter 10 (278-98): “Ideal/Value”
- Discuss: Ulmer’s “Remake”
W 14-Apr Internet Invention Chapter 10 (278-98): “Ideal/Value”
- Presentation: Group 1
R 15-Apr “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 3
F 16-Apr Due: Exercise 5 (“Automatic Emblems” & “Default Moods”)
M 19-Apr Internet Invention (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” Discuss: Aporia
W 21-Apr “Studio” / Review (last class)
R 22-Apr No Class—Complete Project 3
F 23-Apr Due: Project 3
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