Reading Notes + In-Class Discussion Questions + Powerpoints & Handouts + Tips on Writing Papers + Grading Abbreviations

Here are some materials that may prove useful to you, particularly in trying to learn from the readings I either lecture on, or which we discuss in class.

Breakout Room Questions for the Day

Abbreviations Used in Marking Papers & Essays (aka "Grading Codes")

Supplementary Packet (with grading codes, advice about writing papers, and an sample of an excellent philosophical essay focused on assessing the meaning of a particular philosophical text)

A Video Introduction to Philosophy (Crash Course Overview)

A Video Introduction to Western Philosophy

A Video Introduction to Russian Montage

The Film "World of Tomorrow"

The Films of Robert Schaller

Jason's Reading Notes: Weeks #1 thru #5

Reading Notes for Textbook Section II Introduction (pp 51-65)
Reading Notes for Andre Bazin_The Ontology of the Photographic Image
Reading Notes for Danto_Moving Pictures (pp 100-112)
Reading Notes for Section III Introduction (pp 137-139)
Reading Notes for Carroll's_Film of Presumptive Assertion (pp 154-169)
Reading Notes for Section IV_Film Narrative (pp 174-184)
Reading Notes for_Currie_Unreliability Refigured (pp 200-210)
Reading Notes for Chapter 20 on Cinematic Authorship (by P. Livingston, pp 299-309)
Reading for Lackey Article_The Auteur Theory in the Age of the Mini-Series
Reading Notes for Barthes' "Death of the Author"
Reading Notes for Chapter 20 on Cinematic Authorship (pp 299-309)

Jason's Reading Notes: Weeks #6 thru #10

Reading Notes for Textbook Section V: Introduction (pp 213-216)
Reading Notes for Walton_Fearing Fictions (pp. 234-245)
Reading Notes for Neill_Empathy and Film Fiction (pp. 247-260)
Reading Notes for Knight_In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulations & Fiction (pp. 271-280)
Reading Notes for Carroll_Film, Emotion, and Genre (pp. 217-233)
Reading Notes for Gaut_Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film (pp. 260-270)
Reading Notes for Sauchelli_Horror and Mood (pp. 39-50)
Reading Notes for Carroll_Why Horror? (pp. 33-45)
Reading Notes for Oza_The Aesthetics of Horror in Cinema
Reading Notes for Gaut_The Paradox of Horror
Reading Notes for Ross_Propaganda and the Moving Image
Reading Notes for Devereaux_Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will
Reading Notes for Carroll_Introduction to Part VIII: Film and Knowledge
Reading Notes for Hanson_Minerva in the Movies: Relations Between Philosophy and Film
Reading Notes from Wartenberg_Contemporary Philosophical Filmmaking?
Reading Notes from Turvey_Avant-Garde Films as Philosophy
Reading Notes from Gunning_The Question of Poetic Cinema
Reading Notes from Gerstner_How Do We Look So Far? Notes Toward a Queer-Film Philosophy
Reading Notes from Cunliffe_Feminist Philosophy of Film

Jason's Reading Notes: Weeks #11 thru #14

Reading Notes for Ross: Propaganda and the Moving Image
Reading Notes for Deveraux: Beauty and Evil_The Case of Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will"
Reading Notes for Carroll's Introduction to Section VIII

Reading Notes for Hanson's "Minerva at the Movies: Relations beween Philosophy and Film"
Reading Notes for Wartenburg: Contemporary Philosophical Filmmaking
Reading Notes for Turvey: Avant-Garde Films as Philosophy
Reading Notes for Gunning: The Question of Poetic Cinema
Reading Notes for Gerstner: ... Notes Toward a Queer-Film Philosophy
Reading Notes for Cunliffe: Feminist Philosophy in Film

Lecture Notes (as PDFs) and/or Powerpoints for Use in Class (each is often just a shortened version of my reading notes, but beginning with Week 6 readings some are more accurate as I removed some elements not needed for class lecture purposes, and fixed typos, etc.)

Introduction to Section II_Ontology of Film (Powerpoint)
Bazin_Ontology of Photography Essay (Powerpoint)
Danto on Moving Pictures (Powerpoint)
Introduction to Section III_Documentary Films (Powerpoint)
Carroll on presumptive assertion films
Section IV_Film Narrative (Powerpoint)
Currie on Unreliability (Powerpoint)
Lecture Notes for Chapter 20 (Livingston's) on Cinematic Authorship
Chapter 14: Carroll on Film Emotion and Genre (Powerpoint)

Powerpoints (and some lecture notes) used in class for Weeks 6 through 10 (If there are any reading materials missing here, they are in the section above that includes all readings notes for Weeks 6 through 10)

Lecture Notes on Jinhee Choi's Introduction to Section V
Chapter 15_Walton_Fearing Fictions (Powerpoint)
Chapter 16: Neill: Empathy and (Film) Fiction (Powerpoint)
Knight: "In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulations & Fiction" (Powerpoint)
Noel Carroll: "Film, Emotion, and Genre" (Powerpoint)
Gaut: "Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film" (Lecture Notes)
Sauchelli: "Horror and Mood" (Powerpoint)
Carroll: "Why Horror" (Lecture Notes)
Oza: "The Aesethetics of Horror in Cinema" (Powerpoint)
Gaut: "The Paradox of Horror" (Powerpoint)
Ross: "Propaganda and the Moving Image" (Powerpoint)
Devereaux: "Beauty and Evil: Thje Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will" (Reading Notes)

Some Sample Questions from In-Class "Breakout Group" Discussions

Breakout Group Questions for In-Class Discussion: Currie on Unreliability
Questions for Breakout Discussion Groups on 9-23


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