MACS 395

Summer 2011 All Classes

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Special Media/Cinema Topics

Credit: 3 hours.

Cultural, social, historical, economic, and/or political issues in media and/or cinema; topics vary but may include: genres, historical movements, thematic studies, television, convergence culture, new media. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary.

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MACS 395 class schedule data for summer 2011
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	36233	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:00AM -11:50AM	MTWR	148 Armory	Turnock, J	Part of Term: S1 Date Range: 05/16/11-06/10/11 Section Title: Contemporary Cinema Section Info: Addresses transnational trends in blockbuster cinema relating to the influence of other media such as video games, social networking, and personal electronics. Considers impact of technology such as digital capture, computer generated imagery and other special effects technologies, as well as the economic structures of global filmmaking production, exhibition, and promotion. Queries taste categories across popular and art cinemas, and also explores the transformations of long-standing spectatorship categories such as 3-D, the teen film, queer cinema, the woman's film, and the documentary. Films screened will (likely) include "Avatar", "Antichrist", "Miami Vice", "Cloverfield", "Mysterious Skin", "Twilight", "Exit Through the Gift Shop", and "The Social Network".