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The Essay as Resistance Pop-Up Class
March 3, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
https://goo.gl/forms/9Q7crlrBxvz81rki2
Session 1: March 3rd, 7 – 8:30pm @ Studio 1 at the Hive
Session 2: March 8th, 7 – 8:30pm @ Studio 1 at the Hive
Session 3: After Spring Break (TBD) @ the Digital Toolshed at Honnold/Mudd Library
This is an experiment in video essay making, flash-filmmaking, and the politics inherent in forms of representation. In this pop-up class we will think about, and participate in, the political nature of and possibilities inherent in the written essay and the video essay. In short: we will read essays and make short videos that participate in a political moment not (or not only) because they are thematically about political positions or views, but because the historical form of the essay—digressive, fragmentary, unconventional—has a political force. If we are conditioned by our education to think of the essay as academic, five-paragraph, caught up in the conventions and privileges of the academy and belles lettres, this course explores a different way of thinking, writing, making an essay on film. Consider German Arciniegas: “The essay is a passage along the edge of an abyss.” Or Philip Lopate on James Baldwin: “In Baldwin’s hands, the essay lost its stigma of benign, belletristic coziness and became a matter of life and death.” In this pop-up class you will reimagine, and remake, the essay as something that can be protest, resistance, power.
Registrants are expected to attend all three sessions.
Food and snacks will be served.
Teaching Team:
Professor Joanne Nucho, Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Pomona College
Professor Kara Wittman, Director of College Writing and Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College
Questions?
timothy.moore@hive.claremont.edu
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ACCESSIBILITY
The Hive is accessible through the entrance facing 7th Street (north entrance), the entrance facing College Ave (west entrance), and the entrance adjacent to Millikan Laboratory and the Cowart ITS building (east entrance). The west entrance can open automatically. For accommodations, please contact the Hive via Facebook message, email (hive@claremont.edu), or phone call (909-607-9248).