Due Date: Initial post and responses are due no later than March 1, 2020
Assignment: Write a prompt with full directions for a discussion forum for the first or second week of class. Be sure to include a deadline, word count if any, responses required, and whether students should have citations.
Respond to at least one of your peers. Submit your prompt as text entry and respond to a colleague's by answering one of the following questions:
Tip! All responses should be CRISP: Considerate, Reflective, Interactive, Succinct, and Pertinent.
Grading Rubric:
Original Posting (5 points)
Replies to Others’ Postings (5 points)
TOPIC: Cinema as a Haunted House
FILMS: Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982) and Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007)
BLOG POST: Now that we've seen two types of Haunting films, compare the differences in content as to "what" was being haunted in the two. Consider the times which they were made and incorporate the societal family dynamics that may or may not have influenced the story arc as a whole.
Use our reading from Tom Gunning's "Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations" to frame how cinema highlights/mutes your particular reading of the "haunting" in the films, what the haunting may/may not represent, and create a thesis/supporting argument for your POV.
There is a lot of good readings by J. Levinson, Michael Chion, and Natalie Gorbman that discuss how music can be used to convey the narrative in different settings using different themes, instrumentation, and rhythmic patterns.