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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
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
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Studies in Cinema Media Cultur Classes