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課程名稱	(中) 電影中的社會變遷(0405)
	(Eng.) Social Change Through Movies
開課單位	通識中心
課程類別	必修	學分	2	授課教師	林志龍
選課單位	不限系所	授課使用語言	英文	英文/EMI	Y	開課學期	1141
課程簡述	This course examines social changes through the medium of movies. Topics for this course include race, social classes, immigration, family, ideology, authority, war, media and AI. Using movies analysis, this course will examine how social change has been represented on screen. Critical analysis of movies should account for the social context where it was mad. Every week we introduce one issue through movies and discuss how movies play in the understanding of our life.
先修課程名稱						課程含自主學習	Y

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1.To learn about the historical and cultural background of contemporary society.
2.To gain an awareness of the political and economic realities and challenges of modern world.

5.國際視野

6.社會關懷

討論

講授

出席狀況

作業

授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共16週加自主學習)

週次	授課內容
第1週	Introduction & Persuading the Public – The Lion Has Wings (1939) (76m) * The film as propaganda.
第2週	Social Order – High Noon (1952)(85m) * The role in preventing crime.
第3週	Social Order - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)(80m) * What is rumor?
第4週	The Truman Show (1998)(103m) * A Journal of Self-Discovery.
第5週	Moon Festival
第6週	The First Assignment.
第7週	Gender – Gaslight (1940)(84m) * The origin of ”gaslighting effect”.
第8週	Gender – Suffragette (2015)(106m) * Women’s fights for equal rights of the late 19th century.
第9週	Family – Brief Encounter (1945)(86m) * How do you choose whether to stay or go?
第10週	Family – Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) (93m) * What do you feel during a relationship breakdown?
第11週	The Second Assignment.
第12週	Work and Married Life – Swing Shift (1984)(100m) *The meaning of work as a married woman.
第13週	Work and Married Life – Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)(105m) *Balacing work and parenting as a single parent.
第14週	AI – Ruby Sparks (2012)(104m) * Progammed to love.
第15週	AI - Never Let Me Go (2010)(105m) * Is human cloning real in humans?
第16週	The Third Assignment
自主學習內容	03.製作專題報告

學習評量方式

The top of the grading scale is capped at 100.
The compositions are graded accordingly.
Attitude in class (15 percent of total grade)
The first assignment (25 percent of total grade)
The second assignment (25 percent of total grade)
The third assignment (25 percent of total grade)
Report after self-directed learning (10 percent of total grade)
A student can make any grade item worth extra credit by submitting additional film criticism.
A student who misses class is expected to present an excuse for every absence by email in two weeks or 10 points deducted off total grade for every absence.

教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)

Jean-Anne Sutherland, Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film (London: Sage, 2009)

課程教材（教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址）

Erik Barnouw, Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, Mark Bernard, Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film and the Politics of Representation (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014).

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction. 10 edition. (New York, N.Y: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012).

Mark C Carnes, Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (New York: Henry Holt, 1996).

Martin Clayton, Music, words and voice: A reader (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).

課程輔導時間

By appointment

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