Spring, A. Juhasz. Print, Media, Television and Popular Culture. This course will focus on the history and critical analysis of print media, television and popular culture with an emphasis on developing critical skills and interpretive strategies. Language of Film. The course includes silent film, classic Hollywood narrative, avant-garde film and video, documentary and activist video.
Enrollment is limited.
Media and Society. Women and Film. An investigation of both the oppressive and oppositional potential of the fiction film as it either captures or constructs cultural understandings of women's sexuality, agency and identity. This introduction to feminist film theory and scholarship will consider the representation of women in a variety of classic Hollywood film genres as well as how women represent themselves in both Hollywood and avant garde film and video. This comparative survey traces the development of commercial, documentary and experimental cinema in North, Central, and South America from the inventions of Edison and the Lumieres to the present day.