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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 DayAbbreviations Used in Marking Papers & Essays (aka "Grading Codes")
A Video Introduction to Philosophy (Crash Course Overview)A Video Introduction to Western Philosophy
A Video IntroductionJason's Reading Notes: Weeks #1 thru #5
Reading Notes for Textbook Section II Introduction (pp 51-65)Jason's Reading Notes: Weeks #6 thru #10
Reading Notes for Textbook Section V: Introduction (pp 213-216)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)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