Week 1 (January 20) – Introduction to Course
Wednesday: Introduction to Course
Week 2 (January 25 & 27) – Film Authorship
Monday: Introduction to Film Authorship and Quentin Tarantino
Wednesday: Read “What is an Author?” by Michel Foucault & “A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema” by Francois Truffaut / Discussion Post #1 due by 12PM
Week 3 (February 1 & 3) – Reservoir Dogs
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group A]
Wednesday: Discuss and analyze Reservoir Dogs (1992), dir. Quentin Tarantino & Read “As I Lay Dying: Violence and Subjectivity in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs” by Asborn Gronstad / Discussion Post #2 due by 12PM
Week 4 (February 8 & 10) – Politics of Auteurism
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group B]
Wednesday: Read “Introduction” by Jim Hillier & “La politique des auteur” by André Bazin / Discussion Post #3 due by 12PM
Week 5 (February 15 & 17) – Pulp Fiction
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group C]
Wednesday: Discuss and analyze Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino & Read “The Birth of a New Avant-Garde” by Alexandre Astuc / Discussion Post #4 due by 12PM
Week 6 (February 22 & 24) – Jackie Brown
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group A]
Wednesday: Discuss and analyze Jackie Brown (1997), dir. Quentin Tarantino & Read “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962” by Andrew Sarris / Discussion Post #5 due by 12PM
Week 7 (March 1 & 3) – Kill Bill
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group B]
Wednesday: Discuss and analyze Kill Bill (2003—2004), dir. Quentin Tarantino & Read “No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory” by David Andrews / Discussion Post #6 due by 12PM
Week 8 (March 8 & 10) – Death of the Author
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group C]
Wednesday: Read “The auteur Theory” by Peter Wollen & “The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes / Discussion Post #7 due by 12PM
Week 9 (March 15 & 17) – Spring Break
Monday: NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK
Wednesday: NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK
Week 10 (March 22 & 24) – Inglorious Basterds
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group A]
Wednesday: Discuss and analyze Inglorious Basterds (2009), dir. Quentin Tarantino & Read “Is Tarantino Serious? The Twofold Image of the Auteur and the State of Exception” by Oliver C Speck / Discussion Post #8 due by 12PM
Week 11 (March 29 & 31) – Django Unchained
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group B]
Wednesday: Discuss and analyze Django Unchained (2012), dir. Quentin Tarantino & Read “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film: What Does It Mean to Be a Black Film in Twenty-First Century America?” by Heather Ashley Hayes and Gilbert B. Rodman / Discussion Post #9 due by 12PM
Week 12 (April 5 & 7) – The Hateful Eight
Monday: F2F Supplementary Instruction [Group C]
Wednesday: Discuss and analyze The Hateful Eight (2016), dir. Quentin Tarantino & Read “The Commerce of Auteurism” by Timothy Corrigan / Discussion Post #10 due by 12PM
Week 13 (April 12 & 14) – Workshop Final Paper Outline
Monday: Workshop Final Paper Outline [Group A]
Wednesday: Workshop Final Paper Outline
Week 14 (April 19 & 21) – Workshop Final Paper
Monday: Workshop Final Paper Outline [Group B]
Wednesday: Final Paper Outline due PLEASE UPLOAD TO D2L BY 12PM
Week 14 (April 26 & 28) – Workshop Final Paper
Monday: Workshop Final Paper [Group C]
Wednesday: Workshop Final Paper
Week 15 (May 3) – Final Paper
Monday: Final Paper due PLEASE UPLOAD TO D2L BY 12PM
January 19 Classes Begin
January 25 Drop/Add Period Ends
March 3 Midterm Grades Due
March 5 Last Day to Drop a Class with a W (by 5:00 p.m.)
March 14 - 21 Spring Break
May 3 Last Day of Classes
May 4 - 10 Final Exams
May 12 End of Semester Grades Due
May 13 Commencement
May 19 Grades Available in Banner
This course syllabus provides a general plan for this course. The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the syllabus, including changes to assignments, projects, examinations, etc., in order to accommodate the needs of the class as a whole and fulfill the goals of the course.