Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Reel Images: Gender, Genre and the Movies in English Studies--English Studies Summer Camp for High School Students


Reel Images:  Gender, Genre, and the Movies in English Studies at the English Studies Summer Camp



Eastern Illinois University will host the English Studies Summer Camp July 24-30, 2016. We look forward to welcoming high school students who share our love of reading and writing for years to come. This one-week camp allows students to hone their English skills while providing them with a chance to sample life on a college campus and meet peers with similar interests. Offering courses that reflect students’ interests, our engaged faculty and tranquil setting provide that perfect opportunity for students to have an academically charged summer getaway where they can grow as readers, writers, debaters, and English scholars!

This session will examine gender roles in genre films and highlight ways at least some horror, screwball comedy, and animated movies move beyond gender stereotypes.  Students will learn useful strategies for analyzing film and media portrayals of gender and apply them in a short creative or analytic project in a medium of their choice. 




A Message from Robin Murray, your instructor for “Reel Images: Gender, Genre, and the Movies in English Studies”: Welcome! To prepare for this session, all you need to do is watch your favorite movie (s) and/or television show(s) and think about how you might classify it or them if you were searching for them on Netflix. Do you like animated films or media? Do you like science fiction or fantasy? Do you like dramas? 



Once you have a classification, you’re ready to begin analyzing! Once I have some idea of your favorite films and/or TV shows, we’ll watch clips from them and apply strategies for analyzing them in relation to film and media form, style, and gender representations. 



To get us started, we’ll watch clips from Cabin in the Woods (2012), The Big Lebowski (1998), and Frozen (2014), as well as a variety of Netflix series, including Jessica Jones and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. One of our projects will be to develop a short media project, like a blog, wiki, or podcast, so your film and media knowledge and preferences will come in handy. Please bring them with you!


Program Overview:
 
The EIU English Studies Summer Camp is a unique program that allows students to customize their program of study, selecting two sessions from a range of offerings in creative writing, literature, professional/academic writing, media studies, and more. Students grow academically and socially as they prepare for college and are mentored by expert faculty who share their passion for reading and writing.  Students receive individual attention through small class sizes and gain skills in analyzing and crafting texts and expressing their ideas both verbally and through writing.
The camp offers two levels of discounted tuition:
  • a residency rate which includes tuition, housing, recreation, and three meals per day, and
  • a commuter rate which includes tuition, some recreational activities, and daily lunches.
Scholarships for full or partial funding are available.

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