NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 電影中的社會變遷(0405)
(Eng.) Social Change Through Movies
Offering Dept General Education Center
Course Type Required Credits 2 Teacher LIN, CHIH-LUNG
Department General Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description 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.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
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.International Perspective
6.Social Care
50
50
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 The Moon Festival (no class)
Week 3 Race, Social Classes and Immigration - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)(108m)
Week 4 Race, Social Classes and Immigration- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)(99m)
Week 5 Ideology – Battleship Potemkin (1925) (75m)
Week 6 Life of Family- The Graduate (1967)(106m)
Week 7 The First Assignment
Week 8 Life of Family – Brief Encounter (1945)(86m)
Week 9 Law, Crime and Justice - The Wrong Man (1956) (105m)
Week 10 The Second Assignment
Week 11 Law, Crime and Justice - 12 Angry Men (1957) (96m)
Week 12 Law, Crime and Justice – Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (111m)
Week 13 Media –Miss Potter (2006) (88 min)
Week 14 Media – The Truman Show (1998)(103m)
Week 15 AI- Never Let Me Go (2010)(103m)
Week 16 The Third Assignment
Week 17 Self-directed learning (no class)
Week 18 Self-directed learning (no class)
Evaluation
Attendance Check and Attitude (40 percent of total grade)
The First Assignment (20 percent of total grade)
The Second Assignment (20 percent of total grade)
The Third Assignment (20 percent of total grade)
Self-directed learning and Class Participation (bonus total grade)
Textbook & other References
Jean-Anne Sutherland, Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film (London: Sage, 2009)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
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).

Peter Roffman, Jim Purdy, The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair, and Politics from the Depression to the Fifties (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981).
Office Hours
By appointment
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