Textual Analysis (422-0-20)

Topic

Nonextant Film & Media

Instructors

Michael Anthony Turcios

Meeting Info

Annie May Swift Hall G14: Tues 10:00AM - 12:50PM

Overview of class

Lost, missing, looted, destroyed, and incomplete. Such are the varied concepts that lament presently nonextant moving images and material culture. Particular in their application of history and media, these terms require profound contextualization along the historical, cultural, political, and aesthetic conditions that contributed to the media text's nonextant status.

This course engages with mixed methods approaches and welcomes graduate students working with media in any capacity. In order to broaden considerations on nonextant film and media, the course will provide students with historiographic, archival, discursive analysis, and oral history methods. Some of the central questions for this course include: How do principles of respect allow scholars to write responsible scholarship on nonextant media? How do scholars reframe their research projects when encountering nonextant materials? How do researchers assess appropriate methods for studying nonextant media?

The case studies in this course include so-called minor film and media movements, Global South film and media cultures, non-Anglophone texts, and critiques of the archive and other repositories of knowledge, and histories of cultural preservation.

Evaluation Method

Attendance
Class participation
Paper, final
Paper, midterm
Presentations