MDIA 590

Spring 2014

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Credit: 2 TO 8 hours.

May be repeated in the same or in multiple semesters if topics vary.

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51949
Independent Study
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
60108
Lecture-Discussion
S
1:00PM -4:50PM
M
336 Gregory Hall
Turnock, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Digital Cinema
Section Info:
This seminar will consider not the issue of "the digital," but the many "digitals" with varying (and often incompatible) technologies and imaging systems that impact both the cinema as an institution and other forms of imaging media. This class will question some of the major popular and academic assumptions about this phenomenon, including issues around technological and aesthetic convergence, imaging strategies around realism, economic determinism, and international networks. We will explore how both big budget "tent pole"blockbusters and low budget international and US cinema have been impacted across multiple stages of the production, distribution, and exhibition pipeline. This class will be organized around four major areas: first, foundational theories of these many digitals as they has been forwarded since the early 1990s, including those by Rodowick, Mulvey, Belton, Manovich and Gunning. Second, we will discuss issues of digital registration and imaging aesthetics in cinema production. Third, exhibition and distribution across platforms and the "location" of cinema today. Finally, reception. Readings will include those by Whissel, Rogers, Prince, Purse, Stewart, Wood, Caldwell, Klinger, Wood, and more. We will screen documentaries, international art films blockbusters and US indies.
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