CMST 2012 Chapter : 3013Sylabus
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Final exam: wednesday may 7, 7:30-9:30 am contact: jlebre1@lsu. edu 578-6355. Dying for a laugh: disaster movies and the camp imagination. "cultural history, structure, rhetoric, and performance of particular film genres. " (lsu. Camp, kitsch, and trash are evaluative terms that function as genres in their own right but are applied to films from all genres, thus marking them as meta- generic ideas that circulate amongst audiences and change over time. This is a 4 hour course that includes a lab component; your enthusiastic attendance at all scheduled meetings including thursday night screenings is expected. Members of this course form an audience whose shared experiences watching and discussing the various films that are scheduled for screening during the semester as well as the assigned readings. Students who miss films during the scheduled lab and students who are not present for class discussions impoverish the conversation for everyone else.
