MIT OpenCourseWare
At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation
- Instructor
- Prof. Eugenie Brinkema
- Term
- Fall 2013
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 2 readings · 20 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare CMS.840 At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation, Fall 2013, Prof. Eugenie Brinkema — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Syllabus
Calendar and Readings
- Final Paper Topics Download
- Guide to Scholarly Writing Download
- How to Watch a Film Download
- Paper One Topics Download
- Paper Two Topics Download
- Violence - Terms, Concepts, and Etymology Download
Lecture Notes
13 files
- Session 1 - A Brief History of Violence Download
- Session 2 - America the Violent Download
- Session 3 - Serial Killers I - Repetition & Commodities Download
- Session 4 - Serial Killers II - Boredom & Blankness Download
- Session 5 - Serial Killers III - Portraits & Signs Download
- Session 6 - White Masculinity at the End of the Century Download
- Session 7 - The Underclass and the Marginalized Download
- Session 8 - Girls, Women, & Psychic Assault Download
- Session 9 - Sex, Desire, & Fragmentation Download
- Session 10 - Television, Reality, Culpability Download
- Session 11 - Postmodern Graphic - Gore, Humor, Cartoons Download
- Session 12 - Regarding the Pain of Others Download
- Session 13 - Is it the Case that We Are What We Watch Download
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Eugenie Brinkema, CMS.840 At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation, Fall 2013.
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