Brooklyn College |
Film Department |
John Beatty |
Film Genres: Crime Films |
Syllabus |
SSI 2012 |
Requirements
Books
Required:
Clarens, Carlos; 1997; Crime Movies Da Capo Press, NY 373 pp
And One of the following
Rafter, Nicole, Michelle Brown; 2011; Criminology Goes to the Movies Crime Theory and Popular Culture NYU Press NY 256 pp 162
Thompson, Kirsten Moana; 2007 Crime Films: Investigating the Scene Walflower, London and New York
Also on electronic resource materials in the library:
Nicol , Bran and Eugene McNulty and Patricia Pulham; Crime culture [electronic resource] : figuring criminality in fiction and film / edited by.
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ASSIGNMENTS
SHORT ASSIGNMENT (for next Tuesday) (5%)
TERM PAPER (45%)
Term paper is due no later than JULY 3 2012.
CHECK WITH ME ABOUT BOTH TOPIC AND FILM YOU WANT TO USE
FINAL EXAM (45%)
The final will be from 8 am to 10 am and is in essay format. There will be several questions and you will have a choice.
CLASS PARTICIPATION (5%)
NOTICE!!!!!!!!!!
TURN OF YOUR ELECTRONIC DEVICES. A CELL PHONE GOING OFF IN CLASS IS AN AUTOMATIC “F” PLUS YOUR CELL PHONE WILL BE DESTROYED
THE DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS REQUIRE ATTENDANCE RECORDS TO BE KEPT. IF YOU MISS MORE THAN 2 CLASSES YOU WILL FAIL THE COURSE AUTOMATICALLY
A LATENESS OF MORE THAN 15 MINUTES COUNTS AS AN ABSENCE