Film and Media Studies 200 - Introduction to Film and Media Studies

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Colgate University

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L. Caminati, J. Knecht, M. Salazkina, L. Schwarzer This course recognizes that film and mass media can be powerful determinants of ideology, identity, and historical consciousness. It also recognizes the centrality of visual experience to everyday life and questions the consequences of our passive consumption of visual media as both entertainment and information. Students in the course critically engage with visual culture through a structured critique of mass media images and practices, their production, circulation, and impact on human consciousness. The course serves to establish a groundwork of theoretical practices that enables students to approach their visual world with the tools to not just passively look at popular visual media, but to actively work at understanding both the production and reception of mass media images.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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