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PIMA 7020G /FILM7032G : Artistic Process in Contemporary Community/Special Topics in Film History

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PIMA 7020G Artistic Process in Contemporary Community /  

FILM7032G Special Topics in Film History

Wednesdays 4-6:30, Feirstein Grad School of Cinema, Seminar Room 1, Spring 2020



 

Alexandra Juhasz: Alexandra.Juhasz@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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Jennifer McCoy: jmccoy@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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Course Description:

This cross disciplinary course considers how to store, transfer, share, research, and reactivate media collections facing obsolescence. Theories and practices of media and digital archives and queer and feminist media will undergird close interaction with 12 VHS AIDS activist videotapes. The tapes are culled from Professor Alexandra Juhasz’s larger (300+) research and activist collection, focusing on women, AIDS and sexuality. This newly digitized corpus is one source from which students will research and build new resources, including original interviews, writing about historical context, media analysis, community-based and interactive media programming and creative praxis. Working within related communities, students will create final projects that use resources from this growing archive to activate community goals. Most materials generated by the class will be stored and presented here, thereby growing this arhive.

 Course Objectives:

Course Requirements

Grading Rubric and Values

            Preliminary Assignments: annotating, researching, presentations, ungraded: 20%

            ReMix/ReSearch: 20%

            Final Project: 50%

            Participation: 10%

 

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