District
of
Play
persuasion, storytelling, and the city-as-text
course description
District of Play is a first-year writing course that uses situated, imaginative, multimodal composition practices to explore how different genres of writing coalesce to create fictional versions of real places. Students will spend a semester working with State of Play, a 2009 film that is both set and substantially shot in Washington, DC. Students will analyze the film, its screenplay, and accompanying texts like interviews, news articles, filmmaker/actor commentary, production notes, and other documents to explore the process of persuading an audience that the DC in the film and the DC in the real world are the same place; they are not.
central questions
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major assignments
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