This course focuses on the business, legal and financial aspects of independent film and video production including contracts, copyright, taxes, budgeting, distribution and exhibition. Students explore how sound entertainment and information products are developed, produced and marketed. An examination of the organization, operation and management of television, radio, cable, print and Internet media companies. Both for profit and nonprofit organizations are analyzed.
Student study the relationship between the production and purchasing processes and profitability.
Personnel management, planning and financial strategies are studied, particularly as they relate to legal, consumer and political policies and considerations. This course examines the history and theory of documentary media production with attention to the economic, technological, ethical and aesthetic concerns of documentary filmmakers. This course explores the representation of Vietnam in American film and television. 600-level courses are graduate only. This course explores theoretical and critical approaches to the study of video, film, digital culture and photography.