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History and theory of film and video technology across nations; postcolonial patterns and their electronic and mechanical transmission; economics of distribution, reception, exhibition, and their relation to aesthetics. The first world defined against the second and third by means of cultural product. Instructor: Mottahedeh
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Geopolitics of situatedness and distance as they refer to the film industry. Production, distribution, and reception of exilic and diasporic films. Classical and artisanal modes of production in film. Questions of authorship and embodiment; human rights and interventionist filmmaking. States of liminality, global movements and capital. The experience of globalization, urbanization, alienation, violence, nostalgia for nature and homeland as represented in the filmic image. Instructor: Mottahedeh
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Recent critical developments in Marxist aesthetics, structuralism, semiotics of the image, feminist film theory. History and theory of film technology. Both experimental and Hollywood narrative films. Instructor: Gaines or Mottahedeh
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Introduction to the material and technical infrastructure that informs and constrains the production and dissemination of knowledge. Exploration of cultural impact of technical media from writing to the internet. Combines historical and theoretical discussion with hands-on experimentation with various media, including the codex book, phonography and sound registration technology, photography, cinematography, video, virtual reality, digital computation, and the internet. Instructor: Hansen
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The variety of ways sexualities are represented in current mainstream and avant-garde film and video art. Topics include voyeuristic, narcissistic, and other perverse pleasures; modes of representing bodies, genders, and desires (especially gay and lesbian ones) in relation to national and subcultural identities. Readings in film theory and the history and theory of film technology, as well as related literary and critical texts. Instructor: Clum, Metzger, or Gaines
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Close examination of a particular issue, period, national cinema, or technological development. Instructor: Clum, Gaines, or Jameson
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Flows of image capital in the cinema century, 1895 to the present, across continents and cultures. History of intellectual property respecting new moving image and reproducible sound cultures. Circulation and distribution of entertainment goods, accelerated by electronic connection and technological change. Piracy in emerging nations placed in historical and comparative perspective. Instructor: Gaines
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Religious, political, and philosophical currents informing performance traditions in theatre, mourning rituals, and films of the Near East and North Africa. Role of performance in construction of gendered and national identities. Ta'ziyeh, rowzah, street performance traditions and recitals, modern theatre, film traditions considered from comparative and historical perspectives. Instructor: Mottahedeh
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Close study of one or more mainstream television genres, such as the sit com, soap opera serial, cop show, game show, network news show, or the ''made for TV'' movie. Instructor: Staff
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Close study of a major genre, period, or director. Instructor: Staff
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