MACS 395

Spring 2013 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 spring 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	59888	Lecture-Discussion	P	4:00PM -6:50PM	TR	331 Gregory Hall	Potter, R	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/11/13-05/01/13 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Introduction to Digital Video Section Info: Introduction to Digital Video Production. This intensive, 8-week course offers an introduction to digital video production utilizing the new Media Commons facilities in the University Library. Students will acquire a professional perspective and gain experience with pre-production planning; cinematography, audio recording, and lighting; and nonlinear editing. The course will involve significant work in teams; successful participants will be curious, self-motivated, disciplined, and cooperative.
	57076	Lecture-Discussion	T	2:00PM -4:50PM	TR	147 Armory	Turnock, J	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/11/13-05/01/13 Section Title: Contemporary Cinema Section Info: DESCRIPTION: This course seeks to provide students with a critical context for recent international cinema by exploring filmmaking across several kinds of genres, aesthetics, and technologies. We will discuss transnational trends in blockbuster cinema relating to the influence of other media such as video games, social networking, and personal electronics. The course will the consider 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. We will query taste categories across popular and art cinemas, and also explore the transformation of longstanding spectatorship categories such as 3-D, the teen film, queer cinema, the woman�s film, and the documentary. Meets with MACS 496-T (CRN 57762) Restriction(s): Not intended for Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.