TIMELINE

FEB 4-6

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Tues, Feb 4


VIEW: Chris Marker, La jetée

 

READ:

  1. Bullet Constance Penley, The Future of an Illusion, 126-39

  2. BulletGarrett Stewart, Between Film and Screen, 102-05, 293-98



REVIEW:

  1. Bullet Brooks Module on Plot

  2. Bullet Brooks Module on Narrative Desire

  3. Bullet Terms applied to the analysis of film


 

Thurs, Feb 6


REVIEW:

  1. Bullet  Material from Tuesday

     

     

MODULES

FILL IN THE X; OR, THE ABCs OF NARRATOLOGY


In these first four weeks, I will introduce students to the basic structures of narrative form, specifically the distinction between "story" and "discourse" and between the "proairetic and hermeneutic codes" of narrative. Students will also begin to analyze film, thus becoming familiar with those terms from film theory that we will build on over the course of the semester. Two pop cultural shows (Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files) and one experimental film (La jetée) will serve to help us in our exploration of the narrative limitations of human consciousness.

 

  INTROS

  TERMS

SYNOPSES

PRIMERS

RESOURCES

POLICIES

MATERIAL

"La jetée and the photographemic heart of cinema"


 

La jetée 

ENGL 373H: The Theory of SF&F

INSTRUCTOR         : Prof. Felluga

OFFICE                    : HEAV 430

OFFICE HOURS      : T,Th 10:30-11:30 (or email me)

E-MAIL:                   : felluga@purdue.edu