Call Number | 13807 |
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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 |