Video Games and Narrative Cinema

Spring 2025 | MW 5:45-6:35 PM | Greenlaw Hall 101 (GL 101)

Course Overview and Outline

05 Jan 2025
Assignments & Materials

06 Jan 2025
Video Essay Projects

07 Jan 2025
Week 1 - Introduction to the Course

08 Jan 2025
Week 2 - Grammars of Action

09 Jan 2025
Week 3 - Narratives of Technology

15 Jan 2025
Week 4 - Allegories of Control

23 Jan 2025
Week 5 - Mechanisms of Perception

29 Jan 2025
Week 6 - Operational Logics, Playable Models

06 Feb 2025
Week 7 - Narrative Flows

14 Feb 2025
Week 8 - Ontological Dependencies

23 Feb 2025
Week 9 - The Death Stranding Experience

03 Mar 2025
Week 10 - TA Guest Lectures

07 Mar 2025
Week 11 - TA Guest Lectures

22 Mar 2025
Week 12 - Video Essays: Ideation and Planning

28 Mar 2025
Week 13 - Video Essays: Storyboarding and Script-Blocking

04 Apr 2025
Week 14 - Video Essays: Audio Recording and Media Capture

10 Apr 2025
Week 15 - Video Essays: Assembly and Editing

20 Apr 2025
Week 16 - Conclusion to the Course

26 Apr 2025