The subject matter of the course will be covered in seminars, including lectures by the instructor. This course will examine the film makers and their productions to engage in a dialectic discourse using major aesthetic elements, time, space, motion, color, and sound to show how Black film makers develop these elements in articulating screen messages. The course will also look at different modes of signifying while using different uses of African American symbolism. The underlying assumption of this course is to establish a clear understanding of the principles of media aesthetic and their prudent use as a vehicle for viewer manipulation in articulated messages. An individualized program of faculty supervision of the student in the process of devising, designing, researching, writing and submitting a master's thesis.
Meetings depend on amount of credits student takes.