Courses Designed and Taught
Teaching, course and program development have been a central part of my work life work since I began teaching in 1988. I have spent as much time developing syllabi and teaching the courses as I have writing and filmmaking--probably more! Here is a sampling of the range of courses I have developed and taught over those years.
I can make my syllabi accessible for research. Please contact me directly.
Grad Seminars:
- Mediatized War: Vision, Technology and the Spectacle of Violence in Contemporary Non-Fiction Media”
- Political Modernism and Beyond: Radical Formalism in Avant/Garde Film and New Media.
- The Image of Time: Cinematic Temporalities in Theory & Practice
- From History To Entropy: "Writing" History In Cinema,
- Film and the Uses of Memory
- The Art of the Electronic Image
- Brakhage/Godard: Reinventing Cinema
- Graduate Production Seminar in Video
- Media & The New Cultural Politics Of Difference
- Experience/Document/Artifact
- The Poetics of Testimony
U/G Seminars and Survey Courses:
- The Image of Labor: Work, Film, Media, Resistance!
- Making Time: Cinematic Temporalities in Theory and Practice
- The Avant-Garde Film 1940 To Present. U/G Survey
- Experiment and Exploration: The Bay Area Experimental Media Arts Underground U/G Survey
- African Cinema
- From Old World to Lost World: Yiddish Film and its Afterimages
- The Religious Imagination in Cinema
- History of Video Art
- Critical Projects In New Genres-History/Testimony/Activism,
- Introduction to Film and Media Studies (Major Survey)
- Documentary and Non-Fiction Film and Video, U/G Survey
- Committed Cinema: Film/Media, Art and Social Change
- Documentary Film Now! Explorations in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film & Media
- Documentary & Non-Fiction Film Production