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Course name
Transnational Women's Cinema
Institution
University of Michigan
Instructor
Miranda Marraccini
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Film Television Media
Course dates
2020-01-09 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-04-21 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
6


What does women’s cinema signify? Is it cinema created exclusively by women, for women? Or
is it cinema the puts women at its center? Concurrently, do these narratives about women
privilege one type of woman over another? More importantly, how do we understand and
interrogate these questions within non-western and global contexts? This course will delve into
the multiple subjectivities, socio-cultural geographies, media practices and political activism
that is folded into the category called ‘women’s cinema’. Beginning with an exploration of the
1970s “cine-feminism” that focused on women’s filmmaking and political activism, we will
expand our discussion to transnational contexts and explore how feminist politics advocated by
female and male filmmakers influence an understanding of women-oriented issues, forms, and
values in circulation. We will examine women’s films produced within national and
transnational geo-cultural spaces posing questions about national versus exilic or postcolonial
auteur subjectivities. In doing so we will analyze the films’ aesthetics, institutional context of
production, global circulation and situate them within the larger theoretical framework of
feminist film theory, female vs. male authorship, postcolonial studies and transnational feminist
scholarship. This course primarily focuses on Women’s cinema from the global south such as
South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Brie98 Nadine Labaki
Big ol' Brain Mati Diop Sofia Coppola
Funlovinfriend Sofia Coppola
400cats Ana Lily Amirpour, Minhal Baig
Oddcat20 Minhal Baig

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Thursday, 16 January 2020
In class - Course introduction
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 21 January 2020   |   Thursday, 23 January 2020
In class - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article


Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 28 January 2020   |   Thursday, 30 January 2020
Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)


Assignment - Choose possible topics

Exercise

Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 4 February 2020   |   Thursday, 6 February 2020
Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Films


In class - Library Instruction - Finding Library Resources

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 11 February 2020   |   Thursday, 13 February 2020
In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 18 February 2020   |   Thursday, 20 February 2020
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9


In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 25 February 2020   |   Thursday, 27 February 2020
Assignment - Keep drafting your article
In class - In-Class Editing Session

Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 10 March 2020   |   Thursday, 12 March 2020
Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 17 March 2020   |   Thursday, 19 March 2020
Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.


Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 11

Course meetings
Tuesday, 24 March 2020   |   Thursday, 26 March 2020
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 12

Course meetings
Tuesday, 31 March 2020   |   Thursday, 2 April 2020
Assignment - Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!


Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 13

Course meetings
Tuesday, 7 April 2020   |   Thursday, 9 April 2020
Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

Week 14

Course meetings
Tuesday, 14 April 2020   |   Thursday, 16 April 2020