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Hi Aaron,
 
I find that students tend not to show up for screenings outside of regular lecture or tutorial times even if they've been told it's compulary, so I tend to show just a few things in tutes. I guess if you enforced the attendance by penalising them in grades for not showing up for a screening it may work for the rest of the screenings, I don't know, but even for screenings in regular tute times where I took a roll, there was poor attendance.  I wonder if making the screening evenings more social with coffee and snacks and maybe going to dinner or something afterwards would get better attendance.
 
Good luck,
 
Becky
"Delwiche, Aaron" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm putting the finishing touches on a syllabus for an introductory film studies course. According to the university course bulletin, students are expected to attend weekly film viewing sessions on Tuesday evenings.

What policies have other instructors adopted with respect to mandatory film viewings? Do you take roll during viewing sessions? Do you force students to attend the viewing sessions, or are they allowed to watch the films at their own leisure? Do you require students to attend a certain percentage of evening sessions?

I would be grateful for any thoughts from other instructors who teach courses with a film component. What approaches have you found to be successful? What approaches have not worked?

Thanks,
Aaron

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From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Ying Zhu
Sent: Sun 8/21/2005 12:23 PM
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Subject: [SCREEN-L] new book on Chinese Television Drama



Qu Chunjin & Ying Zhu (eds), "Television Drama:
Chinese and US Perspectives" (Shanghai: Shanlian
Press, 2005) 

For those of you who are interested in research on
Chinese teleivison drama and can access books written
in Chinese, the first academic book on Chinese TV
drama came out in China early this summer. The volume
"Television Drama: Chinese and US Perspectives" was
co-edited by Chunjin Qu (China) and Ying Zhu (US).

With a foreword from Robert Allen and contributions
from leading television scholars in China, the US, and
Asustralia, this landmark volume witnesses a serious
attempt to spotlight the significance of television
drama as a narrative form, social discourse and
commerce in China within a framework of comparative
study that foregrounds the similarities and
differences between TV drama and the study of TV drama
in the PRC and the US.

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