S: Television Studies: Text, C

This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to contemporary issues, debates, and methodologies in global Television Studies. It will briefly rehearse the history of the study of television, particularly as it emerges from film studies and cultural studies traditions, focusing on debates about the object of study and approaches to that object. It will proceed with a focus on global difference and technological change.

ST- Fixing Social Media

This course examines sociotechnical problems with existing modes of social media and works towards building new, affirmative visions for social media through technical and policy means. Students will examine interventions to address problems with contemporary social media and design and develop possible interventions.

S-Survey/Performance Studies

This course is intended as a survey in performance studies. As such, the foundational tenets and histories of the field will be reviewed and then lead into contemporary and interdisciplinary discussions. We will examine a range of theories, methodologies, and practices that make up the field and address US based as well as transnational performance studies.

Sem-Intro Film Thy

This course offers an introductory overview of major approaches to the study of film and audiovisual media, including formalism and realism ("classical" film theory), and theoretical and critical methods informed by structuralism, semiology, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, political theory, and cultural studies. Auteurism, feminist film theory, queer theory, genre studies, spectator/audience/ reception, star and performance studies, apparatus theory, postcolonial theory, and theories of new media will also be considered.
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