February
Feb 16 [In class Screening: Sherlock Jr. 1924)
Readings (please read these by Thursday's screening)
- http://fuckyeahbusterkeaton.tumblr.com/
- Gunning, Tom. “An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator.”
- "Commonplace Books: The Tumblr of an Earlier Era"
WEEK 2 excavating histories of spectatorship
Feb 23: Visit to Library Special Collections/Local Media Culture Project Introduction
Readings (please read these and make notes in your Commonplace Book by Tuesday's class, as will be the schedule by now on)
- Rick Altman: The Silence of the Silents
- Miriam Hansen, Babel and Babylon, Chapter 1 Excerpt
- http://rudolphvalentino.tumblr.com/