Film and Media Studies 47 - Topics in Film and Media Studies

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Dartmouth College

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08F: 10A, 2A 09S: 2A 09F: 10A This course presents a range of approaches to film studies outside traditional categories such as genre or national cinemas. Each course will emphasize a different combination of historical, theoretical, and new methodological approaches to one area of film studies. In 08F at 10A (Section 1), The Racialized Body in Popular Media. This class examines the ways that representations of race and racial identity have been central to U.S. popular media. Rather than view the history of race and media as a history of the absence or merely the denigration of racial "others", this class is interested in the way that popular media have offered many and varied images of racialized bodies that often invite viewers to find pleasure in racial difference. We will look at the multiplicity of racial images in various media including, early motion pictures, documentary films, television variety programs, music television, television news, reality programming, and new media. Dist: ART. Beavers.In 08F at 2A (Section 2), History of Documentary. Documentary film combines nonfiction with an aesthetic aspiration. This course will explore achievement in the documentary, raising issues about the influence of documentary upon political persuasion, historical memory, the status of film as evidence and its utility as a means of investigation. We will look at films from a broad range of styles, viewpoints and eras, i.e., compilation, observational cinema, propaganda, social-issue, travelogue, interview, avant-garde, home movie, biography, newsreel, mock-documentary, and autobiography. Documentary represents an alternative to the dominant entertainment cinema and, as such, frequently addresses controversial issues directly. Students should be prepared to explore sensitive issues of race, class, and gender raised by non-fiction film. Ruoff. In 09S, Gender and the Media (Identical to, and described under, Women's and Gender Studies 56.6). In 09F, Jews In Hollywood (Identical to, and described under, Jewish Studies 22).Bronski.

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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