MACS 321

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Film Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduces students to key issues of, major theoretical approaches to, and current debates about the cultural function of films. Course addresses theories of spectatorship, the politics of pleasure, the culture of entertainment, and the cinematic construction of race, class, and gender.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western

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MACS 321 class schedule data for spring 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	66402	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	1050 Siebel Center for Design	Aguayo, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Title: Documentary and Social Change Section Info: Cinema has always stimulated hope for a better world. Coming into its own during the progressive era, a period of widespread activism and political reform from 1890 to 1920, motion picture technology attracted educators, activists, historians, and moral leaders. With the progress of this technology grew the belief that movies could help solve the problems that troubled society. Instead of escape, these motion pictures engaged audiences with the political power of representation, riveting viewers with diverse reflections of daily life that could compel hearts, change minds, and give spectators political agency. This legacy of community media continues with an incredible impact on the production of diverse viewpoints, stories, and representations in public life. Historically, these films were not exclusively released in theaters but screened in civic centers, churches, community centers, neighborhoods and now circulate online. As a response, communities organized their own media production centers and practices to combat the problematic representations on the commercial screens and in news representations. This course will study the history of documentary and social change in the United States but also what this might look like in our local community. As a class, we will plan community screenings and production workshops that reflect the legacy of engaged cinema, collaborating with community groups. This course will provide students with hand-on experience and training towards professional careers in content creation and community focused media. MACS students would be interested in the history of participatory cinema, politics of representation, community engagement, production practices Journalism students would be interested in community beat reporting, information gathering and reporting practices, visual storytelling, reporting on undocumented history, representation of memory and community building Advertising students might be interested in the use of realism and authenticity in visual storytelling, adverting/public relations and social justice. Those who would be interested in planning and branding events around the social good should also be interested in this course.