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Weekly work:

• Readings due before Tuesday night’s screenings
• Screenings on Tuesday night
• Weekly Canvas discussion due Friday (response to general prompt) and Sunday (response to fellow student) </aside>

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Please note, all readings will be linked from this weekly map—you don’t need to buy any books.

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ACT 1: SPECTATORSHIP, SPECTACLE, AND THE GAZE

Week 1 — Spectatorship & Spectacle: From Silent Cinema to GIFs — Sep. 14–18

Weekly Mix

• Kelli Marshall, “Animated GIFs: A Throwback to Cinema’s Beginnings”
• Tom Gunning, “The Cinema of Attractions”

Screening

• Steamboat Bill, Jr.
• Yuri on Ice, episode 1

Weekly Discussion

• Week 1 Discussion

Week 2 — The Power of the Gaze — Sep. 21–27

Weekly Mix

• Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
• Sam George-Allen, “Where the Male Gaze Doesn’t Go”
• oonshuan, “My Five Minute Magic Routine”