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Spring 2025  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (64568)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
Mon 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
Wed 11:15AM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 45 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64568/1253
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2024  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (33752)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Mon 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 115
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Wed 11:15AM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Rapson Hall 58
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 45 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33752/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2023  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (19548)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 06:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 108
Enrollment Status:
Open (39 of 45 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19548/1239
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2022  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (20221)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 06:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Tate Laboratory of Physics B65
Enrollment Status:
Open (40 of 45 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20221/1229
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2021  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (21725)

Instructor(s)
Harshit Harshit (TA)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 06:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Elliott Hall N119
Enrollment Status:
Open (44 of 45 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21725/1219
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2020  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (16438)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 02:30PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (49 of 60 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+SCMC3001W+Fall2016 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16438/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2019  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (19941)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 06:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Enrollment Status:
Open (49 of 60 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+SCMC3001W+Fall2016
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19941/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2018  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (20343)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 35
Enrollment Status:
Open (58 of 60 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+SCMC3001W+Fall2016
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20343/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2017  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (17539)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 110
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video, and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+SCMC3001W+Fall2016
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17539/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2016  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (18479)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue 04:00PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+SCMC3001W+Fall2016
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18479/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2015  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (35304)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 275
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlekas+SCMC3001W+Fall2015
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35304/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2014  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (15333)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
West Bank Skyway AUDITORIUM
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15333/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

Fall 2013  |  SCMC 3001W Section 001: History of Cinema and Media Culture (21198)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Genealogy of cinema in relation to other media, notably photography, radio, television/video and the Internet. Representative films from decisive moments in global development of cinema. Rise/fall of Hollywood studio system, establishment of different national cinemas, cinematic challenges to cultural imperialism, emergence of post-cinematic technologies.
Class Description:
SCMC 3001W examines the evolution of "media culture" and its artifacts by way of the histories and and theories of images, visual technologies, and what vision itself "means" and "does" in different historical and cultural contexts. Together, these frame our "window on the world," informing our (post?)modern understanding of aesthetics, politics, experience, perception, and identity -- in short, the ways we "make meaning" of our culture and our place (indeed, placement) within it. Rather than attempting to frame the development of this amorphous force called "media culture" in a purely linear way, from "beginning to now" (or, worse, to proceed with the idea that such a history is something comprehensible in the limited time we will share in this course), we will instead begin at "the end", with the purported "death of the cinema." From this situation, we will step back, in both scope and time, to explore key concepts and questions regarding the power of the visual as it has taken new forms and functions in Western culture from "the modern" to "the postmodern," the ways in which technological, social, and industrial developments in the media have given rise to new theoretical and philosophical perspectives in the academy, and the power, limits, and possibilities of systems of representation as they impact daily life ... all considered in terms of "how we got here," (a complicated path!) and if "here" is really all we think, see, and know it to be. Our journey will be a selective travelogue, composed in snapshots torn from the fabric of a larger whole, giving an incomplete but hopefully meaningful image of the complex intersections between media, culture, experience, and scholarship over time.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Film/Video
10% Discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21198/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2010

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