What is usual here is that a separate screening, in addition to normal class

meeting times, is built into the class-schedule, often like a "lab" time

for a science course.  This is treated roughly as homework/required "reading".

Usually a second screening is arranged and students encouraged to see the

film again, required to do so for a paper (videos often get substituted here).

This seems necessary for any use of feature length films and for a normal

full credit course.

 

Often, however, short films, or scenes, etc., can be show in class and then

discussed, and sometimes even repeated.  For my own film course, which

concerns itself very much with how to see/look at films (of several types)

and with film structure and aesthetics that go beyond narrative, I have had

to expand weekly class meeting times to 3 75-minute periods (+ outside

feature length screenings).  Admittedly, I'm obsessive about this, but

showing clips and talking about film chews up an awful lot of time, and I

want to both hear what students have to say and how they explore this

material as well as develop ideas of my own.  But everyone else gets by

ok with 2 75-minute classes + outside screenings.

 

                        Jesse Kalin  Vassar