Courses
The Undergraduate Bulletin lists requirements to major or minor in film and media studies. 700-level classes are open only to graduate students.
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors.
Cross-list: MART 110
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections 001 - 006
Professor: Dr. Maureen Ryan
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Section 001
Section 002 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Dr. Alexandra Sterne
T/Th 2:50-4:05 PM
Section 003
Section 004 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Dr. Alexandra Sterne
T/Th 4:25-5:40 PM
Section 005
Section 006 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
T/Th 1:15-2:30 PM
Section 007
Section 008 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Mark Minett
T/Th 1:15-2:30 PM
Section 009
Section 010 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Ashley Young
M/W 5:30-6:45 PM
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
T/Th 2:50PM-4:05 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820's to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural and industrial changes
their causes and consequences.
Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History)
Section J11 (Film and Media Studies Majors, Minors, or Media Arts Majors Only)
Section J12, J13, J14
Professor Kelly Wolf
100% Web Asynchronous
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Mark Cooper
T/Th 8:30AM-9:45 AM (in Person)
FAMS 308 Global Media Industries
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries. Note-
this new course is a pre-requisite for new courses in the industries stream.
Section J10
Professor Lauren Steimer
100% Web Asynchronous
Section 001
Professor Kelsey Cameron
T/Th 11:40AM-12:55PM
FAMS 330 African American Television
This seminar is designed to provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to think critically about African American images on television by moving beyond the limiting binary of positive and negative images to a more analytically informed approach to television analysis and interrogations of racial representation. This course moves chronologically through television history to allow students the opportunity to understand how Black Americans have been formulated in different historical periods on American television since its inception.
Section 001
Professor Ashley Young
M 5:30- 9:35 PM (meeting time includes 1 hours screening and 15 minute break)
FAMS 350 Introduction to Comic Studies
Scholarly study of the formal aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books
and other related forms.
cross-list: ENG 350
Section 001
Professor Mark Minett
T/Th 2:50 - 4:05 PM
FAMS 383 Documentary Studies
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the diverse forms and functions of documentary films and media. It covers the historical developments, aesthetic traits, industrial contexts, and socio-cultural conditions that have contributed to the dynamic and complex nature of non-fictional media.
Section 001
Professor Maureen Ryan
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
FAMS 511 Filmgoing in South Carolina: Research Practicum
Investigates histories of moviegoing in Columbia, SC and its surrounds though existing scholarship and directed primary source research. Focuses on key moments of change from the 1890s through the 1970s. Considers segregated screening spaces, local censorship and regulation, niche audiences and specialized theaters. Student work will include a public component.
Section 001
Professor Mark Cooper
T/Th 10:05-11:20AM
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors.
Cross-list: MART 110
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections J10-J15
Professor: Dr. Kelly Wolf
Hybrid Online Asynchronous and with in-person Friday discussion sessions- see Self
Service Carolina
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Section 001
Section 004 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Dr. Alexandra Sterne
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
Section 002
Section 005 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Dr. Alexandra Sterne
MW 3:55-5:10 PM
Section 003
Section 006 (Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Ralph "Trey" Lawson
T/Th 8:30-9:45 AM
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Sue Felleman
T/Th 11:40AM-12:55 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820's to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural and industrial changes
their causes and consequences.
Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History)
Section J10 (Media Arts Majors and Minros Only)
Section J13 (Film and Media Studies Majors and Minors Only)
Professor Kelly Wolf
100% Web Asynchronous
Section J11
Section J12
Professor Kelly Wolf
100% Web Asynchronous
FAMS 301 Media, Power & Everyday Life
Media captivates us. But what might we mean by "media"? And how might we evaluate
its power in our everyday lives? This course will consider several possible answers
to these questions. In the end, each student will be able to defend one.
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
T/Th 10:05-11:20 AM
FAMS 308 Global Media Industries
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries. Note-
this new course is a pre-requisite for new courses in the industries stream.
Professor Lauren Steimer
100% Web Asynchronous
FAMS 311 Classical Hollywood Cinema
Survey of Classical Hollywood Cinema in aesthetic, cultural, political, and economic contexts.
Section 001
Professor Sue Felleman
T/Th 2:50-4:05PM
FAMS 316 Music and the Hollywood Film
Examination of how music guides audience interpretation and shapes Hollywood film style.
Section 001
Professor Julie Hubbert
T/Th 11:40AM-12:55PM
FAMS 330 Technologies of the Body
Examination of emerging media that interface with bodies, including biometrics, wearables, and augmented reality. Addresses topics such as identity and categorization, privacy and surveillance, aesthetics and narrative, and bias and regulation.
Section 001
Professor Kelsey Cameron
T/Th 1:15-2:30PM
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors.
Cross-list: MART 110
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections 001-006
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 12:00-12:50 PM (lecture)
+ Friday discussion sessions- see Self Service Carolina
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Section 003
Instructor T.B.A.
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
Section 004
Professor Maureen Ryan
MW 3:55-5:10 PM
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Mark Minett
T/Th 2:50-4:05 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820's to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural and industrial changes
their causes and consequences.
Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History)
Section 003
Professor Kelly Wolf
M 2:20 - 3:35 PM
49% Web Asynchronous
Section J10
Professor Kelly Wolf
M 3:55 - 5:10 PM
49% Web Asynchronous
Section J11
Professor Kelly Wolf
M 5:30 - 6:45 PM
49% Web Asynchronous
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Mark Cooper
T/Th 10:05-11:20 AM
FAMS 350 Introduction to Comic Studies
Scholarly study of the formal aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books
and other related forms.
cross-list: ENG 350
Section 001
Professor Mark Minett
TR 1:15 - 2:30 PM
FAMS 360 Special Topics in Global Media: Border and Identity
In this course we will approach the concepts of border and identity from a range of perspectives, probing media depictions of national/territorial borders, borders between the human and the other-than-human, as well as borders that construct and sustain racial, gender and class divisions. We will examine different forms of media (including fiction and non-fiction film, television, immersive/hypertextual fiction, illustrated book/graphic novel, multimedia art installations) from around the world that address the relationship between borders and identity-formation. Our discussions of the content and aesthetics of these media will draw from a selection of theoretical readings to think critically about the pressing questions of our global present such as migration, environmental justice, transnational security, and humanitarian initiatives.
Section 001
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 10:05 AM-11:20 PM
FAMS 511 Tarantino
This course looks at the work of Quentino Tarantino and his collaborators. The course
examines Tarantino’s work as well as the films and television programs that have influenced
it with a special emphasis on music and the construction of his film’s soundtracks.
Cross-list: MART 591
Section 001
Professors Lauren Steimer & Julie Hubbert
TR 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM
FAMS 511 Community-Informed Film/Media Programming
The course introduces students to national topics in community informed media programming: film/media curation, audience building, community partnerships and engagement, advertising, media distribution and booking, and media education. This is an action-based course built around student projects with the goal of producing student and community-based media initiatives. The course concludes with a student organized film/media festival for students in the community.
Section 002
Professor Omme-Salma Rahemtullah
Second Half Term Course - Runs October 11 - December 1
MW 3:55 AM - 6:40 PM
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections J10
Fully on-line for summer!
June 1 - June 17 (Session 3S4)
Professor Mark Minnet
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors.
cross-list: MART 110
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections 001-006
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 12:00-12:50 PM (lecture)
+ Friday discussion sessions- see Self Service Carolina
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Section 001
Professor Mark Minett
100% Web Asynchronous
Section 002
Professor Sue Felleman
T/Th 11:40-12:55 PM
Section 003
Instructor Alexandra Sterne
MW 3:55-5:10 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820's to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural and industrial changes
their causes and consequences.
Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History)
Section 001
Professor Kelly Wolf
100% Web Asynchronous
Section 002
Professor Kelly Wolf
100% Web Asynchronous
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Mark Cooper
T/Th 10:05-11:20 AM
FAMS 301 Media, Power & Everyday Life
Media captivates us. But what might we mean by "media"? And how might we evaluate its power in our everyday lives? This course will consider several possible answers to these questions. In the end, each student will be able to defend one.
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
T/Th 4:25-5:40 PM
FAMS 308 Global Media Industries
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries. Note-
this new course is a pre-requisite for new courses in the industries stream.
Professor Lauren Steimer
100% Web Asynchronous
cross-list: GLST 308
FAMS 310 Stardom, Celebrity, and Performance
This course explores the different forms and functions of stardom and celebrity and it investigates how a variety of performers and performance traditions within the histories of film, television, music and new media can be understood in relation to industrial, technological, and socio-cultural influences.
Professor Kelly Wolf
100% Web Asynchronous
FAMS 350 Introduction to Comic Studies
Scholarly study of the formal aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books
and other related forms.
Professor Mark Minett
100% Web Asynchronous
cross-list: ENGL 350
FAMS 381 History of Experimental Film
A survey of a parallel history of cinema: that created by painters and sculptors, poets and critics, composers, experimentalists, philosophers, pranksters, and others who have seen and explored possibilities other than the dominant (illusionistic narrative) in the medium of film, from the early 20th century to the present.
Professor Sue Felleman
T/Th 2:50-4:05
cross-list: ARTH 390
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections J10
Fully on-line for summer!
May 11 - May 28 (Session 3S3)
Professor Mark Minnet
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors.
cross-list: MART 110
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections 001-006
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 12:00-12:50 PM (lecture)
+ Friday discussion sessions- see Self Service Carolina
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Section 001
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 1:15-2:30 PM
Section 002
Professor TBD
MW 5:30-6:45 PM
Section 003
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 4:25-5:40 PM
Section H01 (Honors)
Professor Mark Minett
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820's to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural and industrial changes
their causes and consequences.
Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History)
Section 001
Professor Mark Cooper
TR 10:05-11:20 AM
Section 002
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 3:55-5:10 PM
FAMS 308 Global Media Industries
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries. Note-
this new course is a pre-requisite for new courses in the industries stream
cross-list: GLST 308
Section 001
Professor Lauren Steimer
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
FAMS 310 Topics in Popular Media
Not Now! Period Film and Television
An introduction to the genre of films and television set in earlier periods and its subgenres: historical films, literary adaptations, and BioPics. The genre's history, critical and popular understanding (e.g. "heritage film and costume drama"), aspects of research, production, style, stardom and reception will be surveyed.
Section 001
Professor Susan Felleman
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
FAMS 350 Introduction to Comic Studies
Scholarly study of the formal aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books
and other related forms.
cross-list: ENG 350
Section 001
Professor Mark Minett
TR 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
FAMS 383 Documentary Studies
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the diverse forms and functions of documentary films and media. It covers the historical developments, aesthetic traits, industrial contexts, and socio-cultural conditions that have contributed to the dynamic and complex nature of non-fictional media.
Section 001
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 5:30-6:45 PM
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors.
cross-list: MART 110
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections 001-006
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 12:00-12:50 PM (Lecture)
+Friday discussion sessions- see Self Service Carolina
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Section 001
Professor Susan Felleman
TR 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
Section 002
Professor Mark Minett
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820's to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes
their causes, and consequences.
Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History)
Section 001
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 1:15-2:30 PM
Section 002
Professor Mark Cooper
TR 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
Section 003
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
Section H01 (Honors only)
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 4:25-5:40 PM
FAMS 301 Media, Power & Everyday Life
Media captivates us. But what might we mean by "media"? And how might we evaluate its power in our everyday lives? This course will consider several possible answers to these questions. In the end, each student will be able to defend one.
Section 001
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 10:05-11:20 AM
FAMS 308 Global Media Industries
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries. Note:
This new course is a pre-req for new courses in the industries stream.
cross-list: GLST 308
Section 001
Professor Lauren Steimer
MW 3:55-5:10 PM
FAMS 311 Classical Hollywood Cinema
Explore Classical Hollywood Cinema with an emphasis on major directors and films.
Discuss the industrial, aesthetic, and political features of the studio system and
its production methods along with some historical and critical views of it. Consider
key works exemplifying major narrative themes, genres, and historical trends.
cross-list: ARTH 390
Prereq: FAMS 300 or permission of instructor
INT Integrative
Section 001
Professor Susan Felleman
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
FAMS 363 Hong Kong Action Cinema
Survey of the transnational history of Hong Kong action cinema and introduction to
critical approaches through which it has been studied.
Pre- or Co-req: FAMS 240 or FAMS 300
Section 001
Professor Lauren Steimer
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors.
cross-list: MART 110
Carolina Core: AIU
Sections 001-005
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 4:40-5:30 PM
+Friday discussion sessions- see Self Service Carolina
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
Carolina Core: AIU
Section 001
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
Section H01 (honors only)
Professor Evren Ozseluk
TR 10:05-11:20 AM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820's to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes
their causes, and consequences.
Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History)
Section 001
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 1:15-2:30 PM
Section 002
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
Section H01 (honors only)
Professor Mark Cooper
TR 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
FAMS 308 Global Media Industries
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries. Note:
This new course is a pre-req for new courses in the industries stream.
cross-list: GLST 308
Section 001
Professor Lauren Steimer
MW 3:55-5:10 PM
FAMS 310 Topics in Popular Media
Modern Artists as Cinema Subjects
This course examines the representations of modern artists on film. It is concerned
with what modern art and artists mean to the movies and what these movies tell us
about the history of modern art; what kinds of stories about art films tell, why,
and how. It will introduce the various ways that the movies represent modern artists,
their practices, lives and posterities, and will include some comparative consideration
of documentary films about modern artists, but will focus primarily on the artist
biopic, so will be a study of film genre, as well as a crash course in the lives and
works of some of the most famous and popular artists of the 19th and 20th centuries,
from Vincent van Gough to Frida Kahlo and Jean Michel Basquiat.
meets with ARTH 390/551
Section 001
Professors Susan Felleman & Peter Chametzky
TR 1:15-2:30
FAMS 310 Topics in Popular Media
Alfred Hitchcock: Gender, Sexuality and Representation
Examines the films of Alfred Hitchcock, with attention to complex aesthetics, Soviet
montage and German Expressionism influences, critical reception in UK, US, and France,
and the controversial representation of gender roles and sexuality.
meets with ENGL 439
Section 002
Professor David Grevens
MW 3:55-5:10 PM (lecture)
M 5:30-8:00 PM (screening)
FAMS 338 Contemporary British Television Industry
Examine the industrial structures, network histories, production cultures, and regulation
contexts of contemporary (Post-OFCOM) British television via analysis of the diverse
state-owned and commercial platforms for public service broadcasting (e.g. The BBC,
ITV, and Channel 4).
GLD Global Learning and INT Integrative
meets with MART 490
Section 001
Professor Lauren Steimer
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
FAMS 350 Intro to Comic Studies
Scholarly study of the formal and aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books,
and other related forms.
cross-list: ENG 350
Section 001
Professor Mark Minett
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
FAMS 360 Special Topics in Global Media
World War II in German Fillm
This course investigates the theme in German culture of "overcoming the past" through
the lens of popular German cinema. It examines how WW II has been portrayed in German
cinema between the years of 1946-2005.
meets with GERM 398
Section 001
Professor Nicholas Vazsonyi
TR 8:30-9:45 AM
FAMS 365 Special Topics in Global Media
Screening China
Survey of Chinese language cinema. Chinese film history and vocabulary with which
to discuss film texts. Covers classic leftwing cinema, Hong Kong martial arts folms,
as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and PRC New Waves. Taught in English. Films subtitled.
cross-list: CHIN 365
Section 001
Professor Krista Van Fleit
TR 2:50-4:05 PM
FAMS 383 Documentary Studies
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the diverse forms and functions of documentary film and media. It covers the historical developments, aethetic triats, industrial contexts, and socio-cultural conditions that have contributed to the dynamic and complex nature of nonfiction media.
Section 001
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 4:25-5:40 PM
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
FAMS 110.001 Media Culture
Professor Lauren Steimer
MW 4:40-5:30 PM
+ Friday Discussion Sections see Self Service Carolina
Analyze and contextualize our image-saturated media culture; develop an descriptive
vocabulary for images; explore key concepts in and theories of audio-visual media.
Apply media analysis skills to the art of media production.
Carolina Core: AIU
XLST MART 110.001
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their cultural impact. Carolina Core: AIU.
Section 001
Professor Mark Minett
TR 1:15-2:30 PM; No Screening
Section 002
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 4:25-5:40 PM
Section 003
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 6:00-7:15 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Survey the development of cinema and related media from the pyramids to the present,
with an emphasis on mass media after the 1820s. Attend to the relations among key
technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences. Develop
core skills in media history research and interpretation. Required for the major and
minor in Film and Media Studies.
Carolina Core: GHS Global/History (non-US)
Section 002
Professor Kelly Wolf
T TH 2:50-4:05 PM
Section Y01
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 1:15-2:30 PM
FAMS 301.001 Media, Power & Everyday Life
Professor Mark Cooper
TR 10:05-11:20 PM
Media captivates us. But what might we mean by "media"? And how might we evaluate
its power in our everyday lives? This course will consider several possible answers
to these questions. In the end, each student will be able to defend one.
FAMS 316.001 Music and the Hollywood Film
Professor Julie Hubbert
TR 1:15-2:30 PM
Examination of how music guides audience interpretation and shapes Hollywood film
style.
Pre- or co-req: FAMS 240 and FAMS 300
FAMS 328.001 The Blockbuster
Professor Lauren Steimer
MW 2:20-3:35 PM
Examination of the post-1975 blockbuster film phenomenon with an emphasis on marketing,
finance, and reception. The approach to the films screened in this course is more
inclided to an analysis of films as products than toward fromal analytics.
Pre- or co-req: FAMS 308
FAMS 361.001 Middle East on Screen
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 10:05-11:20 PM
Examines representations of the Middle East on screen within multiple media-making
traditions and considers their aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions.
Pre- or co-req: FAMS 240 or FAMS 300
FAMS 566.001 Complex Televsion
Professor Mark Minett
TR 2:50-4:50 PM
Explore contemporary complex television focusing on the innovation of narrative design,
the rise of the sympathetic anti-hereo, and the quest for cultural legitamacy! Screenings
lnclude Lost, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and The Wire and students can tackle a complex televsion series of their choice for the major
assignments.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
XLST ENGL 566.001
CC-INT
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media
for non-majors. Carolina Core: AIU.
Professor Heidi Cooley
Now with break-out sections!
See Self-Service Carolina for sections/times
CRN 21257 ; cross-list: MART 110 (1V)
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their cultural impact. Carolina Core: AIU.
Section 01
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 3:55 – 5:10 PM Screen: M 7:00-9:30 PM
CRN 21258
Section 02
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 11:40 - 12:55 PM Screen: T 6:00 –8:30 PM
CRN 21259
Section H01 (Honors Only)
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 10:05--11:20 AM Screen: T 6:00 –8:30 PM
CRN 21259
Section Y01
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 5:30 – 6:45 PM Screen: M 7:00-9:30 PM
CRN 21260
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820s to the present. Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences. Carolina Core: GHS (CAS Global History).
Section 01
Professor Susan Courtney
MW 2:20—3:55 PM Screen: M 5:30 – 8:00 PM
CRN 21262
Section 02
Professor Kelly Wolf
TR 4:25--5:40 PM Screen: T 6:00-8:30 PM
CRN 29914
Section H01
Professor Mark Cooper
TR 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM Screen: T 6:00 –8:30 PM
CRN 21263
FAMS 308 Global Media Industries
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries.
Note: This new course is a pre-req for new courses in the industries stream.
Professor Lauren Steimer
TR 2:50—4:05 PM
CRN 25039 ; cross-list: GLST 308
FAMS 310: Greece & Rome in Film & Popular Culture
Representations of antiquity in cinema, television, and other contemporary media,
with emphasis on Hollywood’s reception of Greek and Roman history.
Proferssor Hunter Gardner
TR 11:40-12:55
CRN 28966; meets with CLAS 305/HIST 305 (SR)
FAMS 332 American Television
Examination of American television as an industry, art form, medium of social representation,
and set of viewer practices.
Pre- or Co-req FAMS 240 or FAMS 300
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 2:20—3:35 PM Screen: T 6:00-8:30 PM
CRN 25040
FAMS 350 Introduction to Comics Studies
Scholarly study of the formal and aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books,
and other related forms.
Professor Qiana Whitted
MW 9:40--10:55 AM
CRN 21453; cross-list: ENGL 350 (HL)
FAMS 363 Hong Kong Action Cinema
Survey of the transnational history of Hong Kong action cinema and introduction to
critical approaches through which it has been studied.
Pre- or Co-req: FAMS 240 or FAMS 300
Professor Lauren Steimer
TR 4:25—5:40 PM Screen: T 6:00-8:30 PM
CRN 25041
FAMS 381 History of S/EXperimental Film
Survey of key examples and tendencies in the history of experimental film. Considers
how the personal and subjective aspect of film art has been used to explore sexuality
and sexual identity.
Professor Susan Felleman
TR 1:45—4:05 PM (class meeting includes screening)
CRN 25141; meets with ARTH 390-002 and WGST 430-001 (AG)
FAMS 710 Research Methods for Applied Media Studies (Grad Only)
This course invites students to explore forms of applied media studies, including
digital studies and digital humanities approaches, and assess their usefulness for
enhancing and/or extending the reach of their own scholarship.
Professsor Heidi Cooley
W 1:10-3:40 PM
CRN 25043; Meets with: MART 701 (1W)
FAMS 240 Film and Media Analysis
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact. Carolina Core: AIU.
Professor Mark Minett
Session 2 (6 weeks)
Now fully online!
See Self-Service Carolina for section details
FAMS 470: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Horror Films
Focuses on themes of heteronormativity, gender performance, and queer monstrosity
through a survey of modern horror.
Professor Travis Wagner
Session 1 (3 weeks)
M,T,W,R 12:20--3:50 PM
CRN 74535; meets with: WGST 298 (DH)
FAMS 598 International Documentary Production
Offers a broad overview of, and deep immersion in, an international media market for
documentary film and media at the 2018 Sheffield Documentary Film Festival in Sheffield,
United Kingdom.
Professor Laura Kissel
June 5 – June 13
Students must apply through Study Abroad by March 1. Contact Professor Kissel: laura@sc.edu
FAMS 110.001 Media Culture
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley
TR 4:25-5:40 PM; Screening: T 6:00-8:30 PM
Analyze and contextualize our image-saturated media culture; develop an descriptive
vocabulary for images; explore key concepts in and theories of audio-visual media.
Apply media analysis skills to the art of media production.
AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
CRN 51489 XLST MART 110.001 (AR)
FAMS 240 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Interpretation of film, television, and digital media, with particular attention to
describing, analyzing, and writing arguments about the design of media works and their
cultural impact.
AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
Section 001
Professor Mark Minett
MW 2:20-3:35 PM; Screening: M 5:30-7:30 PM
CRN 51409
Section 002
Professor Susan Courtney
TR 11:40-12:55 PM; Screening: T 6:00-8:30 PM
CRN 51601
Section 003
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 5:30-6:45 PM; Screening: M 7:00-9:30 PM
CRN 57004
Section H01 (Honors Only)
Professor Susan Felleman
MWF 12:00-12:50 PM; Screening: W 5:30-8:00 PM
CRN 51602
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Survey the development of cinema and related media from the pyramids to the present,
with an emphasis on mass media after the 1820s. Attend to the relations among key
technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences. Develop
core skills in media history research and interpretation. Required for the major and
minor in Film and Media Studies.
GHS Global/History (non-US)
Section 001
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 3:55-5:10 PM; Screening: T 8:45-11:15 PM
CRN 54137
Section 002
Professor Susan Courtney
TR 4:25-5:40 PM; Screening: R 6:00-8:30PM
CRN 59151
Section H01 (Honors Only)
Professor Mark Cooper
MWF 10:55-11:40 PM: Screening: W 7:00-9:30 PM
CRN 51650
FAMS 470.001 Middle East on Screen
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 10:05-11:20 AM; Screening: R 6:00-8:30 PM
Contrast Hollywood representations of the Middle East with films actually made in
and about Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Kurdistan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and
Turkey. Explore, through cinema, some of the most vexed issues debated in and about
the Middle East today: from questions of modernity to gender dynamics, from Islam
in everyday life to popular culture, from war and conflict to global processes of
power and representation.
Satisfies "Global" requirement for FAMS majors.
CRN 51603
FAMS 473.001 Film and Media Theory/Criticism: Media, Power & Everyday Life
Professor Lauren Steimer
TR 1:15-02:30 PM; No screening
Foundational approaches to media as a means of defining and distributing social power
in everyday life.
Required for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
CRN 51565
FAMS 510.001 Classical Hollywood Cinema
Professor Susan Felleman
MW 2:20- 3:35 PM; M 5:30-8:00 PM
Explore Classical Hollywood Cinema with an emphasis on major directors and films.
Discuss the industrial, aesthetic, and political features of the studio system and
its production methods along with some historical and critical views of it. Consider
key works exemplifying major narrative themes, genres, and historical trends.
Prereq: FAMS 300 or permission of instructor.
INT Integrative
CRN 51584 Meets with MART 592 & ARTH 569 (AT)
FAMS 511.001 American Teen Film
Professor Lauren Steimer
TR 2:50-4:05 PM; Screening: T 6:00-8:30 PM
Discover how the perceived spending power of adolescent consumers has informed the
development of this film genre and explore shifts in its semantic and syntactic elements
across the last fifty years. Explore the correlation between the over-population of
teen films and shifts in the modes of film exhibition post-1948.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
INT Integrative
CRN 51576 Meets with MART 591.001 (AS)
FAMS 511.002 Critical Interactives: Ward One IV
Professors Heidi Rae Cooley and Duncan Buell
TR 11:40-12:55 PM
Join undergraduate and graduate students from computer science and the humanities
to build interactive digital projects for the public. Continue development of a mobile
application that presents the history of Ward One, a predominately African American
community displaced by mid-century urban renewal. Work with former Ward One residents
whose homes were razed in order to enable UoSC's expansion.
Requires Permission of Instructor
INT Integrative
CRN 54094 Meets with MART 591.002, CSCE 571.001 (AU)
FAMS 566.001 Superheroes across Media
Professor Mark Minett
Class: MW 3:55-5:10 PM; Screening: M 7:45-10:15 PM
Trace the aesthetic, cultural, technological, and industrial history of the superhero
genre and superhero storytelling in comics, television, film, radio, and new media
with an emphasis on the transmedia franchising and (re)iteration of iconic "comic
book superheroes" such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and
the Avengers.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
INT Integrative
CRN 51604 XLST ENGL 566 (D7)
FAMS 110.001 Media Culture
Professor Laura Kissel
TR 4:25 PM - 5:40 PM; Screening: T 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Analyze and contextualize our image-saturated media culture; develop a descriptive
vocabulary for images; explore key concepts in and theories of audio-visual media.
Apply media analysis skills to the art of media production.
CC-AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
CRN 22503 XLST MART 110.001 (LU)
FAMS 240 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Closely analyze moving image media (including their sounds) and develop compelling
written arguments about specific works. Required for the major and minor in Film and
Media Studies.
CC-AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
Section 001
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 11:40 - 12:55 AM; Screening: T 6:00 - 8:30 PM
CRN 22504
Section 002
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
TR 2:50 - 4:05 PM; Screening: T 6:00 - 8:30 PM
CRN22505
Section Y01
Professor Kelly Wolf
MW 3:55 - 5:10 PM; Screening 5:30 - 8:00 PM
CRN 22508
Section H01 (Honors Only)
Professor Susan Felleman
TR 2:50 - 4:05 PM; Screening: T 6:00- 8:30 PM
CRN 22507
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Survey the development of cinema and related media from the pyramids to the present,
with an emphasis on mass media after the 1820s. Attend to the relations among key
technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes and consequences. Develop
core skills in media history research and interpretation. Required for the major and
minor in Film and Media Studies.
CC-GHS Global/History (CAS non-US)
Section 001
Professor Mark Cooper
MWF 10:50-11:40 PM; Screening: M 5:30 - 8:00 PM
CRN 22508
Section H01 (Honors Only)
Professor Susan Courtney
TR 11:40-12:55 PM; Screening:W 5:30-7:25
CRN 22509
FAMS 350.001 Introduction to Comics Studies
Professor Mark Minett
MW 2:20 - 3:35 PM
Engage questions of formal design, industrial organization, historical development,
cultural representation, legitimation, and audience practices. Explore a wide variety
of periods, perspectives, and texts ranging from Donald Duck to Maus, The Dark Knight Returns to Fun Home, Akira to Astro Boy, Persepolis to Nimona, and Tales from the Crypt to The Walking Dead.
CRN22929 XlST ENGL 350.001 (F1)
FAMS 470.001 Genre Studies: Mediating Race
Professor Susan Courtney
TR 2:50 - 4:05 PM; Screening:W 7:40-9:40 PM
Develop and explore key questions about race, justice, and media in the era of #BlackLivesMatter
and President Trump. Analyze viral cell phone videos of police brutality and the increased
visibility of white nationalism, and related histories of race at the movies and on
TV—from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to The Cosby Show (1984-1992), The Wire (2002-2008), and Moonlight (2016)—to consider where we are now, how we got here, and strategies for moving forward.
CRN 25557 Meets with ENGL 439.001, AFAM 398.004 (53)
FAMS 470.002 Genre Studies: Screening China: Cinema and Nation
Professor Krista Van Fleit
TR 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM; Screening:M 6:00-8:30 PM
Explore the cinematic history of modern China. Examine how changes in cinematic representation
coincide with differing representations of the nation. Interpret how filmmakers use
different genres to portray China and its changing society from melodramas of cosomoplitan
Shanghai in the 1920s to Maoist muscials, Fifth Generation art house fare, and more
recent martial arts epics.
CRN 27755 Meets with CHIN 355.001
FAMS 511.001 Topics in Film and Media: Tarantino
Professors Lauren Steimer and Julie Hubbert
TR 1:15 to 2:30 PM; Screening T 6:00-9:00 PM
Explore the auteur theory via an analysis of the film and television work of Quentin
Tarantino, a writer and as a director whose “distinct” style has been informed by
an amalgam of national cinemas, film movements, “low” genres, and musical repertoires.
Examine Tarantino’s work as well as the films that influenced each production, with
a special emphasis on music and soundtracks.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
CC-INT Integrative
CRN 22511 XLST MART591.001 (F2)
FAMS 511.H01 Topics in Film and Media: Complex Television
Professor Mark Minett
MW 3:55-5:10 PM; Screening M 5:30-8:00 PM
Explore "complex" or "quality" television as a set of television practices engaged
in by producers and audiences and made possible by a confluence of industrial, technological,
and cultural factors. Pursue questions of form, authorship, and legitimation. Emphasizes
television from the last 20-25 years, but students will also be introduced to previous
eras of quality television.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
CC-INT Integrative
CRN 25558 XLST MART 591.H01 (LW)
FAMS 555.001 Documentary Film and Media Studies
Professor Heidi Cooley
TR 11:40 - 12:55 PM
Examine the history and theory of documentary film and media. Consider questions of
evidence, truth, and reality, as well as how documentary media incite emotion to leverage
claims and mobilize action. Explore interactive documentaries (i-Docs), mobile-mentaries,
VR platforms, and animated documentaries in addition to traditional documentary modes.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor
CC-INT Integrative
CRN 25007 XLST MART 595.001
FAMS 598.001 Hong Kong Action Cinema
Professor Lauren Steimer
TR 4:25-5:40 PM; Screening: R 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Explore the transnational history of Hong Kong action cinema from its humble Shanghai
beginnings to the Hollywood appropriation of both the martial arts aesthetic and the
labor-power necessary to produce it. Engage a range of critical and theoretical approaches,
from notions of national cinema to transnational cult audience reception.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
GLD Global Learning and CC-INT Integrative
CRN 25006 XLST MART 594.001 (LV)
FAMS 110.001 Media Culture
Professor Laura Kissel
May 8-25, M-R 3:30-6:40 PM
Analyze and contextualize our image-saturated media culture; develop an descriptive
vocabulary for images; explore key concepts in and theories of audio-visual media.
Apply media analysis skills to the art of media production.
CC-AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
CRN 77744 XLST MART 110.001
FAMS 240.001 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Professor Mark Minett
May 8-25, M-R 12:00-3:10 PM
Closely analyze moving image media (including their sounds) and develop compelling
written arguments about specific works. Required for the major and minor in Film and
Media Studies.
CC-AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
CRN 77754
FAMS 110.001 Media Culture (= MART 110.001)
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: TR 4:25 PM - 5:40 PM; Screening: T 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Analyze and contextualize our image-saturated media culture; develop an descriptive
vocabulary for images; explore key concepts in and theories of audio-visual media.
Apply media analysis skills to the art of media production.
AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
FAMS 240 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Closely analyze moving image media (including their sounds) and develop compelling
written arguments about specific works. Required for the major and minor in Film and
Media Studies.
AIU Aesthetic/Interpretive
Section 001
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
Class: TR 10:05 - 11:20 AM; Screening: T 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Section 002
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
Class: TR 1:15 - 2:30 PM; Screening: T 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Section E01
Professor Kelly Wolf
Class: MW 6:00 - 7:15 PM; Screening: M 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Section H01 (Honors Only)
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: TR 1:15 - 2:30 PM; Screening: T 4:25 - 6:55 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Survey the development of cinema and related media from the pyramids to the present,
with an emphasis on mass media after the 1820s. Attend to the relations among key
technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences. Develop
core skills in media history research and interpretation. Required for the major and
minor in Film and Media Studies.
GHS Global/History(non-US)
Section 001
Professor Kelly Wolf
Class: MW 3:55 - 5:10 PM; Screening: T 5:30 - 8:00 PM
Section H01 (Honors Only)
Professor Mark Cooper
Class: MWF 10:50-11:40 PM: Screening: W 5:30 - 8:00 PM
FAMS 470.001 Genre Studies: American Television (= ENGL 439.001)
Professor Mark Minett
Class: MW 3:55 - 5:10 PM; Screening: M 5:30 - 8:00 PM
Survey the complex and changing features of American television from networks to Netflix,
from Sesame Street to soap operas to The Sopranos, and from live-tweeting Pretty Little Liars to binge-viewing Breaking Bad. Prepare to examine American television, past and present, from multiple perspectives:
as an industry, as an art form, as a representation of society and identity, and as
a set of practices engaged in by viewers.
FAMS 470.002 Genre Studies: Middle Eastern Cinema [CANCELED]
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
Class: MW 03:55 - 5:10 PM; Screening: M 5:30 - 5:10 PM
Survey films from the Middle East and North Africa and explore the socio-political
contexts in which they have been produced. Analyze film form and content in light
of various theoretical frameworks, including postcolonial, feminist, and psychoanalytical.
Examine modernity, religion and secularism, constructions of femininity/masculinity,
political conflict, and occupied territories. Investigate global processes of power
and representation.
FAMS 470 Genre Studies: The Period Film (= ARTH 390.003)
Professor Susan Felleman
Class: MW 3:55 - 5:10 PM; Screening: W 5:30 - 8:00 PM
In tandem with the Columbia Museum of Art's "CUT!: Costume and the Cinema" exhibition,
explore how and to what ends films evoke historical periods. Consider subgeneres including
historical films, literary adaptations, and biopics, examine scholarship on the "heritage
film" and "costume drama," and investigate the preproduction work of research, production
of settings and costumes, and issues of style, stardom, and reception.
FAMS 473.001 Film and Media Theory/Criticism: Media, Power & Everyday Life (= ENGL 473.001, MART 591.001)
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley
Class: TR 1:15 - 02:30 PM; No screening
Media captivates us. But what might we mean by "media"? And how might we evaluate
its power in our everyday lives? Consider several broadly influential answers to these
questions culled from the past century of research. In the end, be able to defend
one. Required for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
FAMS 510.001 The History of Experimental Film ( = ARTH 569.001/MART592.001)
Professor Susan Felleman
Class: MW 12:00 - 02:00 PM (includes screening)
Discover a parallel history of film created by artists who have seen and explored
possibilities other than the dominant (illusionistic narrative) in the medium. Survey
some of the most important currents in that history, from abstraction, poetry and
radical revolt in avant-garde practices of the 1920s to psychodrama, cameraless film,
experiments in animation and collage, Underground, Structuralist and found footage
film, and more.
Prereq: FAMS 300 or permission of instructor.
INT Integrative
FAMS 511.001 Critical Interactives: Ward One III (= MART 591.002, CSCE 571.001/H01)
Professors Heidi Rae Cooley and Duncan Buell
Class: TR 4:25 - 05:40 PM
Join undergraduate and graduate students from computer science and the humanities
to build interactive digital projects for the public. Continue development of a mobile
application that presents the history of Ward One, a predominately African American
community displaced by mid-century urban renewal. Work with former Ward One residents
whose homes were razed in order to enable UoSC's expansion.
Requires Permission of Instructor
INT Integrative
FAMS 566.001 Superheroes across Media (= ENGL566.001)
Professor Mark Minett
Class: MW 2:20 - 3:35 PM; Screening: M 7:05 - 9:35 PM
Trace the aesthetic, cultural, technological, and industrial history of the superhero
genre and superhero storytelling in comics, television, film, radio, and new media
with an emphasis on the transmedia franchising and (re)iteration of iconic "comic
book superheroes" such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and
the Avengers.
INT Integrative
FAMS 598.001 British Television ( = MART 594.001)
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: TR 2:50 - 4:05 PM; Screening: T 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Examine the industrial structures, network histories, production cultures, and regulation
contexts of contemporary (Post-OFCOM) British television via analysis of the diverse
state-owned and commercial platforms for public service broadcasting (e.g. The BBC,
ITV, and Channel 4).
Prereq: FAMS 240 or permission of instructor.
GLD Global Learning and INT Integrative
FAMS 710.00 Advanced Topics: Race and Media ( = ENGL 765.001)
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: R 4:25 - 7:10 PM; Screening: T 7:35 -10:05 PM
Consider critical, historical, and theoretical methods for studying race in media
studies, with emphasis on U.S. screen media. Engage the current national conversation
sparked by viral cell phone videos, as well as scholarship on film, television, and
digital media—including popular "classics" and a history of counter-media from Within Our Gates to The Wire. Opportunities for archival research in USC's Moving Image Research Collections.
OPEN TO GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
FAMS 110 Media Culture
Satisifies Carolina Core AIU
Professor Laura Kissel
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 PM - 5:40 PM
Screening: Tuesday 6 - 8 PM
An introduction to the study of media forms: photography, advertising, film, television,
and new media. Students learn how to analyze, comprehend, and contextualize our image-saturated
media culture; acquire an analytical/theoretical vocabulary for images; and gain an
understanding of key concepts in and theories of visual media. The course also offers
students the chance to apply their newfound skill set for media analysis to the art
of media production of both sound and image.
FAMS 240 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Satisifies Carolina Core GHS, College of Arts and Sciences Global History
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
Section 001: Professor Mark Minett
Class: M and W 3:55 - 5:10
Screening: M 5:50 - 7:50 PM
Section 002: Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: T and TH 2:50 - 4:05
Screening: W 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Section E01: Professor Kelly Wolf
Class: M and W 5:30 - 6:45
Screening: M 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Section H01 (Honors College only): Professor Susan Felleman
Class: T and TH 2:50 - 4:05
Screening: T 6:00 - 8:00 PM
FAMS 300 Film and Media History
Satisifies Carolina Core AIU
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from antiquity to the present,
emphasizing the twentieth century. Considers key technological, cultural, and industrial
changes, their interrelation, causes, and consequences. Builds historical research
skills.
Section 001: Professor Kelly Wolf
Class: T and TH 1:15 - 2:30
Screening: W 7:05 - 9:05 PM
Section H01 (Honors College only): Professor Susan Courtney
Class: T and TH 11:40 - 12:55
Screening: T 6:30 - 8:30 PM
FAMS 350 Introduction to Comic Studies
Professor Mark Minett
Class: M and W 2:20 - 3:35
cross listed with ENGL 350
This course functions as an introduction to the study of comics, preparing students
to engage with questions of formal design, industrial organization, historical development,
cultural representation, legitimation, and audience practices. A wide variety of periods,
perspectives, and texts will be explored, with readings ranging from Donald Duck to Maus, from The Dark Knight Returnsto Fun Home, from Akira to Astro Boy, from Persepolis to Nimona, and from Tales from the Crypt to The Walking Dead.
FAMS 510 Media Industries (prereq: FAMS 300)
Professor Mark Cooper
Class: T and TH 10:05 - 11:20 AM
Do low budgets inspire creativity? How do policies shaping global trade affect media
where you live? This course considers a recent outpouring of scholarship that engages
such questions. Insights gleaned from this scholarship will allow students to stage
original research projects on local media industries.
FAMS 511 Action Heroines (prereq: FAMS 240)
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: T and TH 4:25 - 5:40
Screening: Tuesday 6:30 - 8:30 OR Sunday 2:00 - 4:00 PM (Attend the screening
of your choice.)
cross listed with MART 591
Fighting female protagonists date back to the earliest cinematic examples of the action
genre in Asia, Europe, and the United States. This course considers the many permutations
of the international action heroine in both film and television. This course is concerned
with material issues connected to the action heroine: economies of stardom, reception
contexts, labor practices, and regimes of bodily training.
FAMS 566 The South on Screen (prereq: FAMS 240)
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: T and TH 2:50 - 4:05
Screening: Tuesday 4:25 - 6:25 OR Sunday 4:05 - 6:05 PM (Attend the screening of
your choice.)
cross listed with ENGL 566 and SOST 405
Paying close attention to what the South has looked and sounded like on screens large
and small (at the movies, on TV, etc.) in the last century, this course asks: What
histories and mythologies of region, race, class, nation, gender, and sexuality circulate
in the history of the South on screen? And what can this media history teach us about
not only the South we live in now, but also the U.S. as a whole? What—and how—have
popular screen Souths (marketed to the nation and the world), as well as more independent
visions, invited us to remember and forget, to feel and not feel, about our collective
past? And what lessons might we draw from this history for the present and the future?
Works studied may include: Django Unchained, Deliverance, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, Daughters
of the Dust, and Sherman’s March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South in
an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, among others.
FILM 110 Media Culture
Professor Laura Kissel
Class: Monday thru Friday, 12:05 - 2:05 PM
May 30 - June 23
An introduction to the study of media forms: photography, film, television, and new
media. Students learn how to analyze, comprehend, and contextualize our image-saturated
media culture; acquire an analytical/theoretical vocabulary for images; and gain an
understanding of key concepts in and theories of visual media. The course also offers
students the chance to apply their newfound skill set for media analysis to the art
of media production of both sound and image.
A complete list of Film and Media Studies course offerings for Spring 2016 can also be viewed on USC's Master Schedule.
NOTE: FILM 240 is a pre-requisite for 500 level courses.
FILM 110 Media Culture
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 PM - 5:40 PM
Screening: Tuesday 6 - 8 PM
An introduction to the study of media forms: photography, advertising, film, television,
and new media. Students learn how to analyze, comprehend, and contextualize our image-saturated
media culture; acquire an analytical/theoretical vocabulary for images; and gain an
understanding of key concepts in and theories of visual media. The course also offers
students the chance to apply their newfound skill set for media analysis to the art
of media production of both sound and image.
FILM 240.001 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 10:05 - 11:20 AM
Screening: Tuesday 4:25 - 6:25 PM
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze
moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required
for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
FILM 240.002 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 PM
Screening: Tuesday 4:25 - 6:25 PM
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze
moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required
for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
FILM 240.003 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Professor Sue Felleman
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 2:50 - 4:05 PM
Screening: Tuesday 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze
moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required
for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
FILM 240 H01 Introduction to Film and Media Studies HONORS SECTION
Professor Mark Minett
Class: Monday and Wednesday 2:20 - 3:35 PM
Screening: Mondays 7:05 - 9:05 PM
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze
moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required
for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
FILM 300 Film and Media History and FILM 300-H01 (Honors section)
Professor Mark Cooper
Class: Monday and Wednesday 3:55 - 5:10 PM
Screening: Wednesdays 5:30 - 7:30 PMSurveys the development of cinema and related
media from the 1820s to the present, Attention to the relations among key technological,
cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences.
FILM 470 Genre Studies: AMERICAN TELEVISION
Professor Mark Minett
Class: Monday and Wednesday 3:55 - 5:10 PM
MEETS WITH ENGL 439
American television has never been as popular, as prestigious, as plentiful, or as
pertinent to understanding American media culture. This course will prepare students
to examine American television, past and present, from multiple perspectives: as an
industry, as an art form, as a representation of society and identity, and as a set
of practices engaged in by viewers. From networks to Netflix, from Sesame Street to soap operas to The Sopranos, and from live-tweeting Pretty Little Liars to binge-viewing Breaking Bad, this course will survey the complex and constantly changing features of American
television.
FILM 473 Film and Media Theory and Criticism: MEDIA, POWER AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Professor Mark Cooper
Class: Monday and Wednesday 2:20 - 3:35 PM
Screening: Mondays 5:30 - 7:30 PM
cross listed with ENGL 473
Media captivates us. But what might we mean by "media"? And how might we evaluate
its power in our everyday lives? This course will consider several possible answers
to these questions. In the end, each student will be able to defend one.
FILM 510.001 THE BLOCKBUSTER
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 2:50 - 4:05 PM
Screening: Tuesdays 6:00 - 8:00 PM
cross listed with MART 592
This course examines the history of the blockbuster film via an analysis of marketing
tactics, exhibition strategies, financing options, and distribution patterns. Topics
addressed in this class include: product placement, audience research, marketing:
trailers, posters, tie-ins, soundtrack and score design, release patterns, casting
considerations, and the tendency of producers to green light “pre-sold” properties.
This course necessitates knowledge of film terminology but the approach to the films
screened is more inclined to an analysis of films as products than toward formal analytics.
FILM 510.002 MUSIC AND THE HOLLYWOOD FILM
Professor Julie Hubbert
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 PM
Screening: Wednesdays 7:30 - 9:30 PM
cross listed with: MART 592
This course will examine the use of music in sound film from the early 1930s to the
present day. It will cover the work of major film composers (Steiner, Herrmann, Williams,
and Zimmer) and important structural trends from orchestral scoring to pop compilations.
It will also consider music’s relationship to other elements on the film soundtrack,
and the synergies film music has generated between the music recording industry, music
videos and games.
FILM 511.001 WARD ONE II
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley
Class: Thursdays 4:25 - 7:10 PM
cross listed with and/or meets with MART 795A.001, MART 591.002, CSCE 571.001, CSCE
790.004
This is an interdisciplinary course that merges theory and practice to consider how
interactive digital applications can be applied to the concerns of public history.
This course will continue the development of a mobile location-aware application that
draws attention to the history of racial politics that made space for Greek Village,
the Strom Thurmond Wellness Center, and the Koger Center.
FILM 511.002 FEMINISM, ART AND MEDIA
Professor Susan Felleman
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 11:40 - 12:55 PM
screening: Mondays 7:30 - 9:30 PM
cross listed and/or meets with ARTH 590, MART 591 and WGST 598
This course introduces basic issues for feminism and feminist theory in art and media
through reading and viewing around case studies in the history of fine arts, photography,
film and video. Participants will read intensively (2-3 readings per week) and work
to understand and articulate feminist critical debates and developments.
FILM 555 Documentary Film and Media Studies: "Intelligence Work"
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 PM
screening: Wednesdays 7:35 - 9:35 PM (the screening time is shared with MART 571B
Documentary Production)
cross listed with MART 595
This course invites students to consider the history and theories of documentary film
and media in terms of the “intelligence work” (Kahana) they perform. It asks students
to consider both (1) how documentary media objects (e.g., films, video, interactive
modes of presentation) invite public engagement in the issues they present and (2)
how such engagement is mobilized through the very technologies that serve to distract
critical engagement.
FILM 110 Media Culture
Professor Laura Kissel
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 PM - 5:40 PM
Screening: Tuesday 6 - 8 PM
An introduction to the study of media forms: photography, advertising, film, television,
and new media. Students learn how to analyze, comprehend, and contextualize our image-saturated
media culture; acquire an analytical/theoretical vocabulary for images; and gain an
understanding of key concepts in and theories of visual media. The course also offers
students the chance to apply their newfound skill set for media analysis to the art
of media production of both sound and image.
FILM 240.001 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 10:05 - 11:20 AM
Screening: Tuesday 4:25 - 6:25 PM
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze
moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required
for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
FILM 240 H01 Introduction to Film and Media Studies HONORS SECTION
Professor Mark Minett
Class: Monday and Wednesday 3:55 - 5:10 PM
Screening: Mondays 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze
moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required
for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
FILM 240.E01 Introduction to Film and Media Studies
Professor Evren Ozselcuk
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:15PM
Screening: Thursdays 7:35-9:35PM
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze
moving images and develop written arguments about film and media. This course is required
for the major and minor in Film and Media Studies.
FILM 300 Film and Media History
Professor Mark Cooper
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 PM
Screening: Thursdays 6 - 8 PM
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820s to the present,
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes,
their causes, and consequences.
FILM 510.001 History of Experimental Film
Professor Susan Felleman
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 - 6:40 PM (includes screening time)
cross listed with ARTH 569 and MART 592
From almost the beginning of cinema, there has been a parallel history: that of film
art created by painters and sculptors, poets and critics, composers, experimentalists,
philosophers, and others who have seen and explored possibilities other than the dominant
(illusionistic narrative) in the medium of film. This course surveys some of the most
important currents in that history, including cubist and other avant-garde practices
of the 1920s; Impressionist, Expressionist, Dada and Surrealist cinemas; psychodramas,
cameraless films, experiments in animation and collage, neo-Dada, pop, Structuralist
film, and more.
FILM 511-001 Introduction to Game Studies
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 10:05 - 11:20
Screening: Wednesdays 5:30 - 7:30 PM
cross listed with MART 591.001
Invites students to think critically about games and game-play. Prepares students
to approach games as historical and cultural objects. Helps students to understand
how games and gameplay function socially to shape how people think about themselves,
others, and the world around them.
FILM 511-002 Stardom, Celebrity, and Performance
Professor Kelly Wolf
Class: Monday and Wednesday 6 - 7:15 PM
Screening: Wednesday 7:30 - 9:30 PM
cross listed with MART 591.002
This course will explore the forms and functions of stardom and celebrity as a phenomenon
of both production and consumption that operates both onscreen and off. We will be
looking at the manner in which a variety of performers from film, television, and
new media can be seen not only as highly skilled workers operating within specialized
fields but also as cultural icons channeling viewer identification and forms of fandom.
The course will also trace the roles that industry economics, technological development,
and socio-cultural change have played in the emergence of individual performers, various
acting and training methodologies, modes of studio promotion, and patterns of exhibition.
Students will learn to recognize the specificities that characterize types of stardom
and celebrity operating across multiple media forms and through different performance
strategies.
FILM 566.001 Mediating Ferguson USA: 1915-2015
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 PM
Screening: Tuesday 6:30 - 8:30 PM
cross listed with ENGL 566-001
This course considers race, justice, and popular U.S. film and media in the 20th and 21st centuries. But it is a history for the present. We’ll begin with the recent national
conversation about incidents in which white law enforcement officers have killed unarmed
African American men and boys: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin,
Oscar Grant, Kejieme Powell and others. First, we’ll study media related to these
cases--from viral cell phone videos to Fruitvale Station (2013)--to develop key questions for the course. With those in mind, and drawing upon
scholarship on media formations of race and related forms of identity and power (e.g.,
gender, sexuality, social class), we’ll then consider what the history of race and
justice at the movies and on TV--from D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915)to HBO’s The Wire (2002-08)--might have to teach us about where we are now, how we got here, and strategies
for moving forward.
FILM 566.002 Superheroes Across Media
Professor Mark Minett
Class: Monday and Wednesday 2:20 - 3:35 PM
Screening: Mondays 7:30 - 9:30 PM
cross listed with ENGL 566-002
Traces the aesthetic, cultural, technological, and industrial history of the superhero
genre and superhero storytelling in comics, television, film, radio, and new media.
Primary focus is placed on examining the transmedia franchising and (re)iteration
of iconic “comic book superheroes” such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man,
the X-Men, and the Avengers.
FILM 710 Media/Archives
Professor Mark Cooper
Class: Wednesday 2:20 - 4:50 PM
cross listed with ENGL 765 and HIST 700
This class explores the role of the archives in determining how media (past, present,
and future) are understood and practiced. We will ask how, to what ends, and for whom,
is knowledge produced by means of archives? The course will emphasize the recent outpouring
of scholarship on this question in Film and Media Studies but will also engage foundational
arguments from philosophy, history, and library and information science. Regardless
of discipline, graduate students will discover how the unique archival resources of
the University’s Moving Image Research Collections can supplement their programs of research and/or creative activity. Students interested
in “film” will be invited to reconsider what that term means. Students interested
in metadata will be asked to revise the division of labor that creates it. Students
interested in historical evidence will encounter powerfully supplemental new kinds
of it. Student interest in ontology will touch archival things.
FILM 566.001 TOPICS: THE MATING GAME IN CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD MOVIES
Professor Larry Rhu
Summer B
MTWRF 1:15-3:15, TR 3:30-5:30
This course studies comedies and melodramas from the first three decades of the sound
era and their more recent inheritors, like Groundhog Day, Moonstruck, High Fidelity, The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, and Far From Heaven. Films will be analyzed in terms of features that define them as comedies, melodramas,
and thrillers, and in terms of their preoccupation with relations between the sexes.
In light of these American "talkies," what constitutes a genuine marriage or makes
such an alliance impossible? Do such questions require public and/or private responses?
Besides those mentioned above, films will include It Happened One Night, The Lady Eve, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, Adam’s Rib, Stella Dallas, Gaslight, Now, Voyager, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Vertigo, and North by Northwest. Some films will be analyzed in tandem with literary texts and film criticism. Grades
will be based on regular journal entries and a final exam. Graduate students will
be expected to read additional theoretical essays and to write a longer and more substantive
final research paper.
FILM 110/MART 110: Media Culture [Carolina Core: AIU]
Professor Heidi R. Cooley
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 – 5:40 PM
Screening: Tuesdays 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Introduces non-majors to the critical study of a range of media forms (e.g., film,
video, photography, new media).
FILM 240: Introduction to Film and Media Studies [Carolina Core: AIU]
See master schedule for multiple times and instructors
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students develop analytical
skills with which to closely analyze, verbally and in writing, the formal elements
(e.g., editing, cinematography, sound) through which audiovisual media communicate.
Students also deploy these skills to consider key critical concepts in film and media
studies. Designed for majors, minors and anyone else who wants to develop analytical
tools for interrogating audiovisual media as well as argumentative writing skills.
FILM 300: Film and Media History [Carolina Core: GHS]
See master schedule for multiple times and instructors, including NEW Honor's Section.
Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820s to the present.
Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes,
their causes, and consequences.
FILM 473: Film and Media Theory and Criticism
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: Monday and Wednesday 2:20 – 3:55 PM
Screening: Thursdays 6:00 – 8:00 PM
To help us understand what screen culture is and has been, and what people have imagined
it could be, this course studies the rich history of critical and theoretical writings
about film and related media from the 1910s to the present. These offer a diverse
body of modern thought (informed by semiotics, Marxism, feminism, critical race studies,
technology studies, and more) and a rich repertoire of analytical tools. We'll closely
read the written texts; analyze moving images (e.g., films, TV, websites) through
the lenses they offer and use the moving images in turn to reflect upon, refine, and
expand the theories we read.
FILM 511.001/MART 595B.001: Special Topics in Film and Media Studies - The American Teen Film
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: Monday and Wednesday 3:55 – 5:10 PM
Screening: Mondays 5:30 – 7:30 PM
The growth of “teen culture” in America in the Post-War era can be directly linked
to the perceived spending power of adolescent consumers. Teen consumers have been
one of the most sought-after audiences for the Hollywood film industry for the last
50 years. The course examines shifts in the semantic and syntactic elements of the
American teen film genre across the last fifty years. One particular area that this
course contends with is the correlation between the over-population of teen films
and shifts in modes of exhibition post-1948.
FILM 511.002/ARTH 539/MART 595C: Special Topics in Film and Media Studies - Art and Cinema
Professor Susan Felleman
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 11:40 – 12:55 PM
Screening: Mondays 7:30 – 9:30 PM
An advanced course about intermediality: the various ways cinema and the other visual
arts have intersected, interacted and related to another from the period of protocinema
to the present. Topics addressed will include artists’ films and avant-garde cinema,
animated film, the art film, art in film, film in art, art documentaries, artist biopics,
and art history and mise-en-scène. The course involves intensive reading in art and
film history, theory and aesthetics. Students are expected to engage in critical reading,
thinking and discussion, regular writing assignments, to research and deliver a short
presentation, and to collaborate on a creative/scholarly project.
FILM 566.001/ENGL 566.001: Special Topics in U.S. Film and Media - Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s
Professor Susan Courtney
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 – 5:40 PM
Screening: Tuesdays 6:00 – 8:00 PM
This course examines two significant decades of rupture and change, at the movies
and in U.S. culture at large. Provocative combinations of change and convention are
particularly evident in Hollywood cinema in these decades, registered by the eruption
of contemporary conflicts in plots and characters, but also by subtle and dramatic
transformations of “classical Hollywood” style itself. It considers ruptures of both
kinds, social and aesthetic, and how they interact in this period of American cinema.
FILM 566.002/ENGL 566.002: Alfred Hitchcock: Gender, Sexuality, and Representation
Professor David Greven
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 – 2:30 PM
Screening: Wednesdays 7:00 – 9:00 PM
This course examines several key works of Alfred Hitchcock, one of the most important
directors in film history, paying close attention to the recurring motifs and concerns
in his body of work. This course examines Hitchcock’s cinematic art, focusing on
the intersection between his complex aesthetics and his controversial representation
of gender roles & sexuality.
MART 595A/CSCE 590 - Critical Initiatives: Ward One
Professor Heidi R. Cooley
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 - 2:30 PM
This is an interdisciplinary course that merges theory and practice to consider how
interactive digital applications can be applied to the concerns of public history.
This course will develop prototypes for (1) a mobile application and (2) an interactive
website that draw attention to the history of racial politics that made space for
Greek Village, the Strom Thurmond Wellness Center, and the Koger Center.
FILM 110/MART 110: Media Culture [Carolina Core: AIU]
Professor Laura Kissel
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 PM – 5:40 PM
Screenings: Tuesday 5:55 PM – 7:55 PM
Introduces non-majors to the critical study of a range of media forms (e.g., film,
video, photography, new media).
FILM 240: Introduction to Film and Media Studies [Carolina Core: AIU]
See master schedule for multiple times and instructors, including NEW Honor’s Section.
Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students develop analytical
skills with which to closely analyze, verbally and in writing, the formal elements
(e.g., editing, cinematography, sound) through which audiovisual media communicate.
Students also deploy these skills to consider key critical concepts in film and media
studies. Designed for majors, minors and anyone else who wants to develop analytical
tools for interrogating audiovisual media as well as argumentative writing skills.
FILM 510/ARTH 539/MART 595B.003: Media Art History
Professor Susan Felleman
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
This seminar style course will be a collaborative experiment in reading, research,
writing and presentation. Together, we will construct a historical sketch and timeline
of media arts that parallels the more dominant mass media history. Each participant
will prepare an introductory lecture and bibliography on a development in media art
history, identifying the technological, social and aesthetic origins of media when
they were new, surveying major artistic innovations, and tracking the history and
context of those media with brief occasional updates throughout the semester, as others
introduce new/er media. The effect will be an illuminating, fun acceleration and intensification
of media, art and culture.
FILM 511.001/MART 595B.001: Tarantino
Professors Lauren Steimer and Julie Hubbert
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 2:50 PM – 4:05 PM
Screenings: Wednesday 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Introduces students to the auteur theory via an analysis of the film and television
work of Quentin Tarantino as a writer and as a director. Tarantino’s “distinct” style
is informed by an amalgam of national cinemas, film movements, “low” genres and musical
repertoires. The course examines Tarantino’s work as well as the films that influenced
each production, with a special emphasis on music and soundtracks.
FILM 511.002/MART 595A: Surveillance
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley
Class: Monday and Wednesday 2:20 PM – 3:35 PM
Ours is a society committed to surveillance. Not only have we grown accustomed to
and accepting of surveillance, but in many instances we consent and even devote ourselves
to it. This course asks: “Why?” To arrive at an answer, students will read theoretical,
fictional and popular texts, as well as explore media objects (e.g., play Portal,
screen films such as The Conversation and watch episodes of Big Brother). They will
participate in a self-monitoring activity and a Mass Observation experiment. At the
end of term, they will publish to a class-oriented online forum at The New Everyday.
FILM 566.001/MART 595B.002/ARTH 390: Classical Hollywood Cinema
Professor Susan Felleman
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 4:25 PM – 5:40 PM
Screenings: Mondays 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Introduces the classical Hollywood cinema of the sound era, some major directors and
films, the industrial workings, aesthetic and political aspects of the studio system
and its production methods, along with some historical and critical views of it. Organized
into units that consider groupings of classical Hollywood films around narrative,
generic and/or historical themes.
FILM 598/MART 595D: Hong Kong Action Cinema
Professor Lauren Steimer
Class: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Screenings: Tuesdays 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Addresses the transnational history of Hong Kong action cinema from its humble Shanghai
beginnings to the Hollywood appropriation of both the martial arts aesthetic and the
labor-power necessary to produce it. Also introduces students to a range of critical
and theoretical approaches, from notions of national cinema to transnational cult
audience reception.
MART 701: Media Research Methods: Theory and Practice
Professor Heidi Rae Cooley
Class: Monday and Wednesday 3:55 PM – 5:10 PM
This is a course for students interested in critical media practice and study. It
approaches issues of research and method in the context of media arts (and related)
practice and critical media studies. It emphasizes that practice is always an ongoing
articulation of a scholar/practitioner, other people and things, a set of tools/technologies
and media, and a history of practice. Readings and discussions focus on how cultural,
social and political assumptions underpin, for example, the selection of a topic,
a problem or a line of inquiry; the ways in which research is conducted across a variety
of contexts; how one defines source material (digital assets, moving images, etc.);
how one imagines an audience; and what medium or mode one chooses to convey this research.
Ultimately, students will develop a critical reflexivity about their own thinking
and practice in order to articulate more fully their intellectual agenda.