PMA 6550 - Global Cinema and Media

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with COML 3261/PMA 3550/VISST 3175.

S. Sheppard.

Global Cinema and Media offers a survey of international film and media history from the late nineteenth century to today. Through a focus on key films and significant epochs, the course traces the evolution of form, style and genre, the medium’s changing technologies and business models, as well as film and media’s relation to broader cultural, social and political contexts. Screenings of narrative, documentary and experimental films and video will be accompanied by readings in film and media theory and history.