Week 1: introductions
ThursdayJanuary 11
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Introduction:
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Documentary Film as SourceDocumentary Film as Scholarship |
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Ruby Summers, We are People: Black Student Movements and the Homecoming Boycott of 1971 |
Week 2: The 1960 Election
TuesdayJanuary 16 |
Lecture:A Story of Kennedys and Kings Discussion:Media: |
ThursdayJanuary 18 |
Discussion:Website, Assignments, 1960 Quiz:Lecture, Media Documentary Questionnaire Administrative:Scheduling of Student Presentations |
| Sunday Night 7:00 | Screening: I Am Not Your Negro |
Week 3: The Civil Rights movement in the south
TuesdayJanuary 23 |
Reading:Farber, All of Part One [six chapters] in Columbia Guide Bates, “The Upheaval of Jim Crow” Columbia Guide King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Lecture:The Foundations of the Civil Rights Movement Discussion:Media, King, and Bates Media:Documentary:I Am Not Your Negro |
ThursdayJanuary 25 |
Discussion:The Civil Rights Movement in the South Quiz:Farber, Bates, Lecture, I am Not Your Negro, and Media Due:I Am Not Your Negro Worksheet Short Film Presentations: |
| Sunday Night 7:00 | Screening: The Black Power Mixtape |
Week 4: black power
TuesdayJanuary 30 |
Lecture: Black Power and the Narrative Trajectory of Sixties MovementsReading:Thompson, “Urban Uprisings” Columbia Guide Black Panther Party, Ten Point Program Discussion:Black Power Documentary:The Black Power Mixtape Short Film Presentation: |
ThursdayFebruary 1 |
Discussion:Black Power Quiz:Readings, Media, and Documentary Administrative:3-minute introductions to documentary subjects Media:Malcolm X, House Negroes and Field Negroes James Brown, “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud”) Stokely Carmichael, Speech 1967 Due:The Black Power Mixtape Worksheet Documentary Subject Fact Sheet. Bibliography. Short Film Presentation: |
| Sunday Night 7:00 | Screening: This is What We Do |
Week 5: the Vietnam war
TuesdayFebruary 6 |
Reading:Immerman, “Explaining the Tragedy of Vietnam,” Columbia Guide Discussion:LBJ and Vietnam Lecture:The United States and Vietnam – 1945-1967 Documentary:This is What We Do Short Film Presentation: |
ThursdayFebruary 8 |
Discussion:The Televised War? Quiz:Readings, Media, Documentary Media:The Ballad of the Green Berets Due:This is What We Do Worksheet |
Week 6: the counterculture
TuesdayFebruary 13 |
Lecture:The Counter Culture as Grand Experiment Reading:Didion, Slouching towards Bethlehem Doyle, “Debating the Counterculture” Columbia Guide Discussion:The Counter Culture Media:The Death of the Hippie Parade Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit” Wednesday Documentary:Student Films: |
ThursdayFebruary 15 |
Documentary – Research PresentationsRiver FireStokes ElectionAkron PunkLordstown Strike
Student Films: Jack Cheney – Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nathaniel Cox-Thurmond – Michael Herr, Dispatches |
Week 7: Chicago 1968
TuesdayFebruary 20 |
Lecture:Chicago ’68 Reading:Oglesby, “Trapped in a System” Media: Bob Dylan, “Masters of War” Scntfc American Remix The I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag Discussion:Chicago ’68 Documentary:Hearts and Minds |
Thursday
February 22
2:30-3:10
Film Workshop – The Camera
Stokes + River
Consultations – Research and Structure
Punk + Lordstown
3:10-3:50
Film Workshop – The Camera
Punk + Lordstown
Consultations – Research and Structure
Stokes + River
7:30: Guest Speaker
Tanisha Ford, “Our Secret Society:Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Due:
Hearts and Minds Documentary Worksheet
Week 8: second-wave feminism and the sexual revolution
TuesdayFebruary 27 |
Lecturette/Discussion:Sexuality and 2nd Wave FeminismQUIZ: Readings and Media Reading:Bailey, “The Women’s Movement” Columbia Guide Bailey, “The Sexual Revolution” Columbia Guide Bailey, “Negotiating Gender in the 1970s” Media:Betty Friedan on Masculinity and Feminism Lesley Gore, “You Don’t Own Me” Wednesday Documentary Screening:What Happened Miss Simone? |
ThursdayFebruary 29 |
Discussion:Race, Gender, Sexuality and Nina Simone Due:What Happened Miss Simone? Worksheet Short Film Presentations:Carson Delmarle – Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X Grace Curley – Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique Molly Sugar, Norman Mailer, Executioner’s Song Nico Rivera – Noam Chomsky, American Power and the New Mandarins James Carter – Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth |
Week 9: the me decade
TuesdayMarch 5 |
Lecture: Understanding the SeventiesReading:Wolfe, “The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening” Media:SNL Gerald Ford vs. Carter Debate QUIZ: Readings, Lecture, MediaShort Film Presentations:Paul Ehenger – Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Shakir Perkins – The Population Bomb Logan Hyatt – Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden Wednesday Night Screening: Salesman |
ThursdayMarch 7 |
Storyboard presentations Stokes Lordstown Punk Fire |
Week 10: Watergate and the fall of Saigon
TuesdayMarch 26 |
Reading:The Washington Post on Watergate Parts 1-4 Crouse, “The White House Five Face Their (heh, heh, heh) Peers” Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Washington” Lasch, The Culture of Narcissim Discussion:Loss of Faith Lecture:Watergate Media:Mitchell and Webb, “Watergategate” Richard Nixon Discovers All in the Family Herb Block and Watergate 12-20 Documentary:Fog of War Due:Lasch Response Paper |
Thursday
March 28
Discussion:
Media:
Richard Nixon Discovers All in the Family
Herb Block and Watergate 12-20
Documentary: The Fog of War
Due: Fog of War Worksheet
Workshop:
Eva Wojciechowski, Desert Soliitaire
Week 11: the rise of the new right
TuesdayApril 7 |
Reading:Roche, “Political Conservatism in the 1960s” Columbia Guide Perlstein, “Thunder on the Right” Lasch, “Right-Wing Populism and the Revolt against Liberalism” Greider, “Attack of the Christian Soldiers” Discussion:The New Right Lecture:The Rise of the Right Documentary:Late, Great Planet Earth Short Film Presentation: |
Thursday
April
Discussion:
Backlash or Silent Majority
Quiz:
Readings, Late, Great Planet Earth, Lecture
Media:
Due:
Late, Great Planet Earth Worksheet
Short Film Presentation:
Hayley Jackson – Howard Zinn, Peoples History of the United States
Theo Weidingen – Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Thursday: Kaela Redding – Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
Thursday:
Week 12: punk, tech, hip hop and a Nation of Limits
TuesdayApril 9 |
Reading:Scott, Hip Capitalism in Boulder Bangs, “Thinking the Unthinkable about John Lennon” Bangs, “Where Were You When Elvis Died” Brand, Space War Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in the Campaign Trail 1976” Ford, “Two Tables and a Microphone” Discussion: Limits and the ArtsDocumentary: TowerDue: Tower worksheet |
Tuesday:
Thursday
April 11
Quiz: The $10,000 Pyramid
Media:
Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”
The Dead Boys, Live at CBGB’s 1977
Grand Master Flash, Wildstyle Video
Devo on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert
Thursday: Wyatt Wilkie – Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
My Huynh – Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Luke Budd – Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Week 13: the rustbelt and the sunbelt
TuesdayApril 23 |
Reading:Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in the Campaign Trail 1976” Oglesby, Yankee and Cowboy War MediaBruce Springsteen, Youngstown Albright, “The Environmentalists” Merle Haggard, Working Man Blues Johnny Paycheck, Take This Job and Shove It The New Regionalism Documentary:Harlan County USA Short Film Presentations:Weidinger, Conscience of a Conservative – this time with pictures! Shakir Perkins, Population Bomb Luke Budd, The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
ThursdayApril 23 |
Rough Cut Screenings of Films |
Week 14: film workshops
TuesdayApril 30 |
Film Festival |