FLME 4332 – Film Genres III – David Lynch
Email: michaelbass@clayton.edu
Office: Arts & Sciences – G121 Part Time Office
Visitation Hours: TR 2:30-4:30 or by appointment

Spring 2022 Full Course Syllabus

Course Readings (Password Protected)

Resources
Clayton State Academic Calendars
Clayton State Film, Communication, and Performing Arts Department
Clayton State Communications and Media Studies Department
Clayton State Film Production Department
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – GSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – GSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library!
Criterion Channel
Shudder
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Read Scholarly Articles
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help

Lecture Notes
Final Project Film Option
Academic Writing
Armbruster – Nostalgia
Beville – Monsters as We Know Them
Beville – The Spectacle of the Lack: Realizing the Monster on Screen
Boym – Nostalgia and its Discontents
Chion – A Film That Stays With You
Dansky – On the Persistence of Camp
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Adaptations
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Auteur Theory
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Feminism
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Postmodernism
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Psychoanalysis
Elsaesser & Hagener – Cinema as Ear: Acoustics and Space
Fisher – The Slow Cancellation of the Future
Fisher – What is Hauntology?
Freud – The Uncanny
Goddu – Introduction to American Gothic (extract)
Illbruck – Uncanny Acts of Violence
Jameson – Historicism in The Shining
Kalinak – “Disturbing the Guests with This Racket”: Music and Twin Peaks
Kalinina – What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Media and Nostalgia?
Kember – David Lynch and the Mug Shot: Facework in The Elephant Man and The Straight Story
Lutz – From Domestic Nightmares to the Nightmare of History
Lynch & Rodley – She Wasn’t Fooling Anyone, She Was Hurt and She Was Hurt Bad: Music and Blue Velvet
McGowan – Introduction: The Bizarre Nature of Normality
Midterm Review
Miller – Monstrous Maturity on Mulholland Dr.
Reeves, et al. – Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks
Richardson – Introduction: Surrealist Film Theory and Practice
Rombes – Blue Velvet Underground: David Lynch’s Post-Punk Poetics
Schneider – Introduction: Psychoanalysis in/and/of the Horror Film
Schneider – Monsters as (Uncanny) Metaphors
Sinnerbrink – Silencio: Mulholland Drive as Cinematic Romanticism
Smith – ‘It’s Just a Movie’: A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes
Todd – Meanings and Authorships in Dune
Todorov – Definition of the Fantastic

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