Course Schedule


Week 1: introductions


Thursday
January 11

Introduction:

 

 

Course Website

The 60s and 70s as History

 
 

Documentary Film as Source

Documentary Film as Scholarship

 

Ruby Summers, We are People: Black Student Movements and the Homecoming Boycott of 1971


Week 2: The 1960 Election


Tuesday
January 16
Lecture:

A Story of Kennedys and Kings

Discussion:
Media:

King leaving Reidsville

1st Presidential Debate

Kennedy!

The Most Important Question

King on the incident

Thursday
January 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


Tuesday
January 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:

MLK and Television

Documentary:

I Am Not Your Negro

Thursday
January 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


Tuesday
January 30
Lecture: Black Power and the Narrative Trajectory of Sixties Movements
Reading:

Thompson, “Urban Uprisings” Columbia Guide

Malcolm X, Ballot or Bullet

Black Panther Party, Ten Point Program

Discussion:

Black Power

Documentary:

The Black Power Mixtape

Short Film Presentation:
Thursday
February 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


Tuesday
February 6
Reading:

Immerman, “Explaining the Tragedy of Vietnam,” Columbia Guide

King on Vietnam

Discussion:

LBJ and Vietnam

Lecture:

The United States and Vietnam – 1945-1967

Documentary:

This is What We Do

Short Film Presentation:
Thursday
February 8
Discussion:

The Televised War?

Quiz:

Readings, Media, Documentary

Media:

Cronkite February 1968

CBS Reports 1970

The Ballad of the Green Berets

Trailer, The Green Berets 

Due:

This is What We Do Worksheet

 
   

Week 6: the counterculture


Tuesday
February 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 Human Be-In Video

The Death of the Hippie Parade

Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”

Wednesday Documentary:

The Endless Summer

Student Films:

Ostrow, The Right Stuff

Thursday
February 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

Henry Turner – Making of a Counterculture 

Sova Gannon – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

   

Week 7: Chicago 1968


Tuesday
February 20
Lecture:

Chicago ’68

Reading:

Potter, “The Incredible War”

Oglesby, “Trapped in a System”

Harris, “The War Comes Home”

Media:

Bob Dylan, “Masters of War” Scntfc American Remix

The I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag

The Battle of Michigan Avenue

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


Tuesday
February 27
Lecturette/Discussion:
Sexuality and 2nd Wave Feminism

QUIZ: Readings and Media

Reading:

Bailey, “The Women’s Movement” Columbia Guide

Bailey, “The Sexual Revolution” Columbia Guide

Bailey, “Negotiating Gender in the 1970s”

“The Personal is Political”

Media:

Nina Simone, “I Wish I Knew”

Nina Simone, “Backlash Blues”

Betty Friedan on Masculinity and Feminism

Lesley Gore, “You Don’t Own Me”

Loretta Lynn, “The Pill

Helen Reddy, “I Am Woman”

 
Wednesday Documentary Screening:

What Happened Miss Simone?

Thursday
February 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

Eva Wojciechowski –  Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Mikey Scarpelli – C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite 


Week 9: the me decade


Tuesday

March 5

Lecture: Understanding the Seventies
Reading:

Wolfe, “The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening”

Media:

Steve Martin 3:22-9:22

Parliament

Kiss

SNL Gerald Ford vs. Carter Debate

QUIZ: Readings, Lecture, Media
Short 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

Thursday
March 7

Storyboard presentations

Stokes

Lordstown

Punk

Fire 

   

Week 10: Watergate and the fall of Saigon


Tuesday
March 26
Reading:

The Washington Post on Watergate Parts 1-4

Moyers Transcript

Crouse, “The White House Five Face Their (heh, heh, heh) Peers”

Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Washington”

Thompson, “He Was a Crook”

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

John Dean Testimony

Nixon Denies Watergate

Fall of Saigon

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

John Dean Testimony

Nixon Denies Watergate

Fall of Saigon

Documentary: The Fog of War
 
Due: Fog of War Worksheet
Workshop:
 

Eva Wojciechowski, Desert Soliitaire

 

 

Week 11: the rise of the new right


Tuesday
April 7
Reading:

Roche, “Political Conservatism in the 1960s” Columbia Guide

Tom and Mary Edsall, “Race”

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:

Hayley Jackson  – Howard Zinn, Peoples History of the United States

Thursday: Kaela Redding – Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

Thursday: Theo Weidingen – Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative

Tuesday: Hayley Jackson  – Howard Zinn, Peoples History of the United States

Thursday: Kaela Redding – Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

Thursday: Theo Weidingen – Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative

Thursday
April
Discussion:

Backlash or Silent Majority

Quiz:

Readings, Late, Great Planet Earth, Lecture

Media:

“Okie from Muscogee”

Boston Busing Crisis

The Hard Hat Riot

George Wallace, Campaign Ad

Reagan, Campaign Ads, 1980

Due:

Late, Great Planet Earth Worksheet

Short Film Presentation:

Thursday: Theo Weidingen – Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative


Week 12: punk, tech, hip hop and a Nation of Limits


Tuesday
April 14
Reading:

Moy, The Cult of Tech”

Scott, Hip Capitalism in Boulder

Rogers, P.C. in the Valley

Bangs, “Thinking the Unthinkable about John Lennon”

Bangs, “Where Were You When Elvis Died”

Brand, Space War
Moy, “The End of Enthusiasm” Columbia Guide

Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in the Campaign Trail 1976”

Ford, “Two Tables and a Microphone”

Discussion:

Limits and the Arts

Administrative:

Storyboard Walkthrough Groups 1-3

Documentary:

Tower

Short Film Presentation:

Luke Budd – Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities 

Tuesday: My Huynh – Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thursday
April 16
Discussion:

Limits and the Arts

Quiz:

Readings, Tower

Administrative:

Storyboard Walkthrough Groups 4-6

Media:

Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”

Dead Kennedys “Kill the Poor”

The Dead Boys, Live at CBGB’s 1977

Grand Wizard Theodore, 1977

Grand Master Flash, Wildstyle Video

Boojie Boy

Devo on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert

Due:

Tower Worksheet

Thursday: Wyatt Wilkie – Peter Singer, Animal Liberation


Week 13: the rustbelt and the sunbelt


Tuesday
April 21
Reading:

Flippo, Outlaw Country

Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in the Campaign Trail 1976”

Whole Earth Catalog Page

Oglesby, Yankee and Cowboy War

Discussion:

The New Regionalism

Documentary:

Harlan County USA

Short Film Presentation:

Lorbach: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Thursday
April 23
Discussion:

The Rustbelt and the Sunbelt

Quiz:

Readings, Harlan County USA

Media:

Keep America Beautiful

Smog

Earth Day

Bruce Springsteen, Youngstown

Albright, “The Environmentalists”

Merle Haggard, Working Man Blues

Johnny Paycheck, Take This Job and Shove It

Deer Hunter

Due:

Harlan County USA Worksheet


Week 14: film workshops


Tuesday
April 28
Roughcut Drafts Groups 1-3
Thursday
May 30
Roughcut Drafts Groups 4-6