Here is our Fall 2022 critical-creative blog schedule:
Week 1: Narrative Structure (Scriptwriting) Article: Keating, P. (2006). Emotional curves and linear narratives. The Velvet Light Trap – A Critical Journal of Film and Television, 4-15. Critical-creative blog by Danny Vagnoni
Week 2: Character Identity and Diversity (Casting) Article: Warner, K. J. (2015). The Racial Logic of Grey’s Anatomy. Television & New Media, 16(7), 631–647. Critical-creative blog by Jahz Branch
Week 3: Sound Design Article: Greene, L. (2016). The Labour of Breath. Music, Sound & the Moving Image, 10(2), 109–133. Critical-creative blog by Corinna Boeck
Week 4: Team Work and Crews Article: Hardin, T. (2009). Notes on collaboration: Assessing student behaviors. Journal of Film and Video, 61(1), 31-50. Critical-creative blog by John Tyrrell
Week 5: Cinematic Landscape (Location Scouting) Article: Lukinbeal, C. (2009). Cinematic Landscapes. Journal of Cultural Geography, 23(1). Critical-creative blog by Leslie Grossman
Week 6: Working with Actors (Advice for First-Time Directors) Book chapter: Weston, J. (1996). Directing Actors. (pp.13-47). Michael Wiese Productions. Critical-creative blog by Aaliyah Pope
Week 7: Directing Book chapter: Weston, J. (2003). The Film Director’s Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques. (pp. 85-100). Michael Wiese Productions. Critical-creative blog by Paige DiFebbo
Week 8: Characters Book chapter: Mittell, J. (2015). Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. (pp. 118-163). NYU Press. Critical-creative blog by Wes Marshall
Week 9: Cinematic Time Book chapter: Mroz, M. (2012). Temporality and Film Analysis. Edinburgh University Press. (pp. 13-41)
Week 10: Cinematic Genre Article: Sobchack, T. (1975). Genre film: A classical experience. Literature/Film Quarterly, 3(3), 196-204
Week 11: Postproduction Strategies (Editing) Article: Holt, J. (2020). Intuition in creative film editing practice: using phenomenology to explain editing as an embodied experience. Media Practice and Education, 21(2), 121-132. Critical-creative blog by Leslie Lopez
Week 12: Props Article: Sandler, K. (2013). Modern Family: Product Placement. In E. Thompson and J. Mittell, How to Watch Television (253-261). NYU Press. Critical-creative blog by Zoe Sohenick
Week 13: Symbolism and Meaning Article: Sobchack, V. C. (1980). Beyond Visual Aids: American Film as American Culture. American Quarterly, 32(3), 280–300. Critical-creative blog by Amaris Manning
Week 14: Media Industry (Next Steps) Article: Hadida, A., Lampel, J., Walls, W.D., & Joshi, A. (2020). Hollywood studio filmmaking in the age of Netflix: a tale of two institutional logics. Journal of cultural economics, 45(2), 213-238. Critical-creative blog by Cristina Pomales
