Fall 2024 Film GR5700 section 001

CINEMA/MEDIA HISTORIOGRAPHY

CINEMA/MEDIA HISTORIOGRAP

Call Number 13807
Day & Time
Location
M 10:10am-12:40pm
403 Dodge Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Department
Instructor Jane Gaines
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

An introduction to issues and cases in the study of cinema century technologies. This class takes up the definition of the historiographic problem and the differences between theoretical empirical solutions. Specific units on the history of film style, genre as opposed to authorship, silent and sound cinemas, the American avant-garde, national cinemas (Russia and China), the political economy of world cinema, and archival poetics. The question of artificial intelligence approached as a question of the “intelligence of the machine.” A unit on research methods is taught in conjunction with Butler and C.V. Starr East Asian Libraries. Writing exercises on a weekly basis culminate in a digital historiography research map which becomes the basis of final written “paper” posted in Courseworks in video essay format. Students present this work at a final conference. Topics in the past include:

Cultural Transactions: Across Media and Continents, Genre: Repetition and Difference, and Bang, Bang, Crash, Crash: Canon-Busting and Paradigm-Smashing

Web Site Vergil
Department Film
Enrollment 20 students (25 max) as of 5:06PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Subject Film
Number GR5700
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Open To Schools of the Arts, GSAS
Note For 1st yr MA Film and Media Studies students
Section key 20243FILM5700G001