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Course Work: Film: Depictions of New York City Youth


Syllabus

All readings to be done by class period indicated

Week 1:
Mon 7/7 Introduction
Film: West Side Story
Wed 7/9 Readings: Nelmes- Intro pp. 25-42, BT-Ch. 1
Packet- Considine (Somewhere in From Mentors..) and 47-50 in Lewis
Film: Blackboard Jungle

Week 2:
Mon 7/14 Readings: Nelmes-88-116 (Form and Narrative), BT-Ch. 2
Jackson- Introduction
Film: Next Stop Greenwich Village
Wed 7/16 Readings: BT-Ch. 3
Nelmes- 78-83
Jackson- Ch. 2
Film: Saturday Night Fever

Week 3:
Mon 7/21 Readings: BT- Ch. 5
Nelmes-168-172, 181-186
Packet- Becquer and Gatti (Subcultures: 445-453)
Packet- Documentary Readings
Film: Reckin' Shop: Live from Brooklyn, Paris is Burning
Wed 7/23 Paper Due
Readings: Jackson- Ch. 6
Packet- Rose
Packet- Drennan (IN Dual City)
Film: Wild Style

Week 4:
Mon 7/28 Readings: BT- Ch. 6 and 7
Jackson- 47-65
Packet- Wirth (City Reader)
Film: Kids
Wed 7/30 Readings: BT- Ch. 8
Packet- McRobbie and Garber (Subcultures)
Packet- Mollenkopf and Castells (Restructuring NY)
Film: Metropolitan

Week 5:
Mon 8/4 Readings: Nelmes- 222-244
Jackson- Ch. 5
Packet: Mulvey
Film: I Like It Like That
Wed 8/6 Readings: Packet: George
Packet: Wilson (The City Reader 225-231)
Packet-Clarke, Hall, et al (Subcultures 100)
Film: Do the Right Thing

Week 6:
Mon 8/11 Readings: Packet: Evans and Gramman (Queer Romance
Packet: Either Punk peices (2) and Grossberg or hair style
Film: Smithereens
Wed 8/13 Final Exam
Film: Just Another Girl on the IRT



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