All phases of production will be examined, including budgeting, financing, rights acquisition, and managing the production. 60443 Globalization of the Media Industries Examines the increasingly international nature of the media industries. Investigates how films, television programs, music, and interactive media are distributed and marketed globally. MEDA 60903 Advanced Topics in Media Industry Studies Seminar offering the opportunity to study various media industries in depth. Analysis MEDA 60433 Technology and Culture Seminar analyzes the ways media technologies have affected and represented their socio-cultural contexts.
Course emphasizes the relationship between technological development and ideology.
MEDA 60503 Script Analysis Incorporates theory and criticism to enable students to dissect and critique scripts written for the visual media. Students will develop the ability to analyze the basic structure of screenplay plots and their relation to character, thought, language, sound, and spectacle. Explores the function of media institutions in the generation and circulation of meanings in society. Course addresses general theoretical issues relating to the production of culture, professional ideologies and work practices within media industries, and interaction of media institutions with the socio-political environment. Includes case studies of various media.