Required readings for COMT 492/592

Class 1: Ohlin & Smith: "How to read a film"

Class 1: Jowett & Linton ch. 3: for this week, read  pp. 83-85 only

Class 1: Jowett & Linton: chapter 4

Class 3: Jowett & Linton: chapter 3

Class 3: Denby: "Big Pictures"

Class 4: Janet Maslin's review (in The New York Times) of The Paper

Class 4: Joe Saltzman on Capra and journalism

Class 5: William Leuchtenberg on the historical inaccuracies of All the President's Men

Class 5: Michael Schudson on Watergate and movies

Class 5: Matthew Ehrlich chapter 6 (but only read pp. 106-120 for this class!)

Class 6: Forbes.com 5/11/98 scoop breaking the news about Stephen Glass's plagiarisms

Class 6: New York Times 5/12/98 news article about Forbes.com and Glass

Class 6: Boston Phoenix 5/21/98 opinion piece about Glass (and newsmagazine readers)

Class 6: New York Times 6/12/98 piece on Glass and other plagiarists

Class 6: New York Times 10/19/03 column on Glass (just before movie release)

Class 6: New York Times 10/31/03 review of Shattered Glass

Class 6: Frank Rich (in The New York Times) on journalists in movies

Class 6: Matthew Ehrlich journal article on Shattered Glass and myth

Class 7: New York Times on The Substance of Fire

Class 8: Salon on "wagging the dog" and Wag the Dog

Class 8: Bright Lights films on Wag the Dog and "wagging the dog"

Class 9: Hilmes on radio

Class 10: Matthew Ehrlich chapter 6 (but only read pp. 120-128 for this class!)

Class 11: The New Yorker on the enduring importance of Edward R. Murrow

Class 11: Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair article on Jeffrey Wigand

Class 11: Link to Wigand's personal web site

Class 11: "Now...this!": chapter from Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death

Class 12: Boorstin ch. 2

Class 12: Gabler ch. 4