August 30, 2024
This course examines a growing subfield of cinema studies, ecocinema, which is devoted to exploring the intersection between film and environmental issues. Ecocinema encompasses a range of movie genres, including documentary, Hollywood blockbusters, eco-horror, indigenous films, and animation. This course investigates how themes like environmental catastrophe, wilderness, animal rights, climate change, the construction of human-nature relations, ecojustice, and environmental politics are communicated through the particular medium properties of film.
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August 30, 2024
This course explores the latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) through critical artistic practices. By looking at different modes of cutting-edge research-based work from artists, scholars, and activists from across the planet, the course reflects upon the implications of AI in transforming traditional notions of creativity, authorship, and labor in general.
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August 30, 2024
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August 30, 2024
This course will introduce students to contemporary Italian media and popular cultures. The course has a thematic approach and applies the analytical theories of critical cultural studies. Students will be exposed to development of various media forms as they have been shaped by and their impact on Italian culture and society.
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August 30, 2024
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August 30, 2024
From the cylinders to MP3s, from Tin Pan Alley to death metal, this is a general survey course exploring and analyzing the history and meaning of popular recorded music within mass culture and society. It focuses on the historical, aesthetic, social, political-economic and technological developments that have shaped the very definition of the popular in the musical field.
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August 30, 2024
This course analyzes the ways in which diverse cultural practices have been used or understood as political weapons, as attempts to intervene in the historical world. The course will introduce students to a number of approaches both theoretical and practical, through readings of source texts and analysis of specific case studies which have investigated the possibility of cultural practice being used as a tool of conflict, dissent, affirmation of identity and resistance.
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August 30, 2024
What is televisions fate in the global digital cultures of convergence? The course examines new programming and advertising strategies in the medium of television, the reconfiguration of traditional and the emergence of new roles within the industry, the development of new global production and distribution strategies and models as well as how these transformations shape actual program content.
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August 30, 2024
Since its emergence in the late 1970s, the music video has become the dominant means of advertising popular music and musicians, as well as one of the most influential hybrid media genres in history. In sampling and reworking a centurys worth of films and other pop culture artefacts (as well as art objects and concepts)
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
This course provides an overview of sound culture and nonlinear audio production with an emphasis on theoretical, historical and practical approaches. In this introductory-level course, students will gain familiarity with the historical trajectory of sound technology and sound art, and get an overview of the theoretical reflections that have accompanied sound artistic creation as well as the basic tools and techniques for nonlinear audio production.
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
These courses are specialized and advanced courses in the field of Digital Journalism.
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
The course provides an in-depth analysis of the technical, social, cultural and political contexts and the implications of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance practices. The focus of the course will be in analyzing the deployment and implementation of specific surveillance practices within mediated digital environments and the other spaces of everyday life. Concepts such as privacy and secrecy will be analyzed as they relate to the general field of surveillance.
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May 8, 2024
The first past of the course will provide an historical overview needed to account for the development of such extraordinary interpenetration between economic, cultural and political powers. Covering the emergence of the broadcasting system from the post-War period to the advent of private television, we will outline the distinctive elements of continuity and change in the relation between television and politics.
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May 8, 2024
Since its emergence in the late 1970s, the music video has become the dominant means of advertising popular music and musicians, as well as one of the most influential hybrid media genres in history. In sampling and reworking a centurys worth of films and other pop culture artefacts (as well as art objects and concepts)
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May 8, 2024
DMA 434 is a hands-on workshop-style course that is ideal for students who have successfully completed TV Studio Lab and and who want to continue working on program development and asset management as well as gaining experience working video switchers, audio mixers, cameras, and lights in demanding live production scenarios. DMA 434 concentrates on producing series and event programming for JCUTV.
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May 8, 2024
DMA 435 is a hands-on workshop-style course that builds on the experience students gained during DMA 434. Students who enroll in 435 will take a leading role in the studio as showrunners for JCUTV. They will develop at least one format, producing a show bible for the semester as well for the use of future sections of DMA 434.
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May 8, 2024
This course examines the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of digital games, their historical development and their articulation with other media and technologies in digitally mediated environments. Topics include the socio-technical aspects of digital gaming, embodiment and space, communities, fan cultures and sub-cultures, spectatorship and performance, gender, race, sexuality, and the politics and economics of production processes.
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May 8, 2024
Religious organizations and the contemporary media often represent competing discourses of communication. Some argue that the media of today substitute for the cultural space once occupied by institutional religion. Others suggest that religious organizations and faith decline as modernity advances. What is the significance of the media age for religion? How does religion in this media age develop a persuasive and effective public presence?
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May 8, 2024
This course examines violence and terror as inherent structural components of contemporary politics and media. Students will study how the performance of violence in the contemporary media landscape has shaped new visual cultures, such as emergent modes of producing evidence, bearing witness and archiving personal and collective memories of traumatic events. Conversely, the course examines how visual culture has dramatically impacted on the way in which we understand and consume violence and terror.
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May 8, 2024
This course examines the technological capabilities, organizational structures, social effects, and ethical implications behind the use of social media platforms Twitter, Facebook and others– in recent social movement organizing. The course will investigate how social media have been utilized and rendered effective by a variety of social movements and in a diversity of contexts and interests, from the Arab Spring, to Black Lives Matter, to It Gets Better.
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May 8, 2024
This course introduces the issues that feminist theories pose for the analysis of films and culture. These issues are usually framed in reference to womens access to and roles in the production of media and womens representation within these media. Correspondingly, the course offers two major sections of investigation. First, we will explore the historical development of womens roles in the cinema as creative artists.
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May 8, 2024
This course aims to provide a theoretical and historical introduction to the modes and styles of documentary film and video. The theoretical and historical focus will consider the forms and functions of non-fiction film from early Lumiere Brothers shorts to contemporary successful theatrical documentaries such as Bowling for Columbine up to the on-line distributed post-9/11 conspiracy films and YouTube.
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May 8, 2024
As we transition from an industrial model of media distribution to networked communications, corporations and grassroots environmental activists are vying to define environmental opinion in an evolving media landscape. By applying media literacy tools to examine paradigms of communication and ecology we will seek to understand how media impact environmental concepts, and explore media strategies for addressing issues such as global climate change. The course covers three core concepts: 1)
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May 8, 2024
This course aims to provide a theoretical and historical introduction to the modes and styles of documentary film and video. The theoretical and historical focus will consider the forms and functions of non-fiction film from early Lumiere Brothers shorts to contemporary successful theatrical documentaries such as Bowling for Columbine up to the on-line distributed post-9/11 conspiracy films and YouTube.
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May 8, 2024
The course provides a general overview of the historical, critical and industrial approaches to that most elusive of components comprising the communications process: the audience, alternately characterized as readers, listeners, spectators, viewers and/or users.
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May 8, 2024
The course focuses on the variety of new forms of critical engagement with audiovisual media –transformative remix videos, mash-ups, re-cuts, vids and the video essay. All of these formats entail the appropriation and re utilization of pre-existing audiovisual footage pulled from films, television programs, commercials, music videos, and so forth in a way that deconstructs, questions, critiques, subverts or analyzes its aesthetic construction and cultural meaning.
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
A study of the European mass media, including film, television, radio, the press and publishing, and new information technologies. The course will analyze the political, economic, social, and cultural forces that have shaped the particular forms of media systems in Europe, and how these same forces were affected following the end of the Cold War.
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May 8, 2024
Myth is an extremely slippery word that has developed such a vast semantic range it is fruitless to try to recover an original or more authoritative meaning. Myths can be considered universal and timeless narratives describing human existence, or geographically determined stories reflecting essential features of a specific culture; vehicles of absolute truths or ideologically unsound delusions.
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May 8, 2024
The course surveys the major experimental film and video movements of the twentieth and twenty-first century by closely examining the audiovisual works and theories of artists that are in dialogue with and run parallel to commercial cinema industries. Supporting and interweaving this historical review through assignments, students will focus on analysis, engage with curatorial methods and issues, and explore the creative act of experimentation with short audiovisual works through personal mobile device technology.
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May 8, 2024
This course will focus on the essential skills for podcast production and will give students a working knowledge of current trends in audio production. This course is designed to familiarize students with all aspects of podcasting and to train students to think critically about stories they consume. Students will learn how to identify an audience, distribute and market their podcast, all within a framework of ethical production.
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May 8, 2024
The course surveys the major experimental film and video movements of the twentieth and twenty-first century by closely examining the audiovisual works and theories of artists that are in dialogue with and run parallel to commercial cinema industries. Supporting and interweaving this historical review through assignments, students will focus on analysis, engage with curatorial methods and issues, and explore the creative act of experimentation with short audiovisual works through personal mobile device technology.
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May 8, 2024
The course explores the relationship between media and the electoral process. Students will examine the history and current status of media, campaigns and elections, as well as how they interact to help shape public attitudes about key events and policy decisions.
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May 8, 2024
This course offers the student practical experience researching, writing and marketing feature articles for print and/or online magazines. The topics covered include how to develop a good idea, analyze a target audience, gather information, write a feature article, and sell the story. Ultimately this course will teach students how to successfully write longer feature stories and how to pitch them to the appropriate publication.
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May 8, 2024
This course introduces students to some of the most important ethical, philosophical, and artistic questions raised by the rapid technological, scientific, and cultural changes of our era. Students will tackle issues such as biological and genetic enhancement, artificial intelligence, the impacts of new media, and the future of employment in a technology-based society, and explore how these issues take us beyond the standard capacities and dualistic concepts of human beings (as disembodied minds, for instance)
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May 8, 2024
This course will introduce students to feminist media studies as a critical approach to examine enduring and emerging trends in media production and consumption, and to envisioning action for change. In this course we will privilege an intersectional and transnational feminist perspective by considering how media forms, industries, and practices are shaped by interconnected inequalities of gender, race, class and sexuality in a global context.
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May 8, 2024
This course introduces students to some of the most important ethical, philosophical, and artistic questions raised by the rapid technological, scientific, and cultural changes of our era. Students will tackle issues such as biological and genetic enhancement, artificial intelligence, the impacts of new media, and the future of employment in a technology-based society, and explore how these issues take us beyond the standard capacities and dualistic concepts of human beings (as disembodied minds, for instance)
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May 8, 2024
This course will introduce students to feminist media studies as a critical approach to examine enduring and emerging trends in media production and consumption, and to envisioning action for change. In this course we will privilege an intersectional and transnational feminist perspective by considering how media forms, industries, and practices are shaped by interconnected inequalities of gender, race, class and sexuality in a global context.
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May 8, 2024
This course introduces students to visual communication design for new media, offering an overview of the grammar of motion design and a communication approach designed to be multi, trans and cross-medial. The main objective of the course is to provide students with approaches, methods, and tools needed for the design of multimedia projects in all their components.
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May 8, 2024
The course will be devoted to comix (understood as both serialized comic strips and comic-books) and the more contemporary format of the graphic novel. Other forms of graphic storytelling, ranging from tapestries to childrens book illustrations to the underground graphic productions of the counterculture, will also be investigated, including traditions of sequential art in a global context.
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May 8, 2024
This course is an introduction to the current debate around the relationship between globalization and the media. By linking theoretical conceptions with hands-on empirical research and analysis, students will develop a richer and multi-layered perspective around the increasingly relevant yet contested notion of globalization, and specifically on the role that the media have in advancing, challenging and representing social, political and cultural change across multiple regions of the world.
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May 8, 2024
This course introduces students to the strategic, conceptual, creative, and technical aspects of promotional videos (teasers, promos, trailers, campaigns, sales reels, and spots). It provides a basic understanding of the various short formats produced in TV and Web communication.
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May 8, 2024
The course investigates current trends in visual communication, as well as the methods for how to analyze and contextualize these. Contemporary aspects of media and visual culture will be examined together with modern and historical texts for a well-rounded engagement with the medium as well as the narratives and issues it articulates.
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May 8, 2024
These courses are specific introductions to intermediate work in the field of Media Studies. They select particular issues or areas of study such as Media and Violence, or African Cinema and incorporate specific theories to investigate the topics such semiotics, post-colonial theory, or postmodern criticism.
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May 8, 2024
Using contemporary theoretical approaches, this course examines both Race and Gender as social constructions, and the role and function of Cinema and Television texts in circulating and contesting those constructions. Focusing on analyzing Cinema and Television texts for their construction of meaning, this course looks at the complex ideological operations at stake in the operations, maintenance, and resistance to meanings constructed around race and gender.
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May 8, 2024
The course investigates current trends in visual communication, as well as the methods for how to analyze and contextualize these. Contemporary aspects of media and visual culture will be examined together with modern and historical texts for a well-rounded engagement with the medium as well as the narratives and issues it articulates.
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May 8, 2024
The For Credit (FC) Internship course combines academic learning with a short-term (part-time with a minimum of 150 hours) internship. Field experience allows participants to combine academic learning with hands-on work experience. For-Credit internships are unpaid. The organization or firm must be sponsored by the JCU Career Services Center (CSC).
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May 8, 2024
Using contemporary theoretical approaches, this course examines both Race and Gender as social constructions, and the role and function of Cinema and Television texts in circulating and contesting those constructions. Focusing on analyzing Cinema and Television texts for their construction of meaning, this course looks at the complex ideological operations at stake in the operations, maintenance, and resistance to meanings constructed around race and gender.
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
Course description is currently unavailable. Please contact your admissions counselor for additional information.
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May 8, 2024
Using contemporary theoretical approaches, this course examines both Race and Gender as social constructions, and the role and function of Cinema and Television texts in circulating and contesting those constructions. Focusing on analyzing Cinema and Television texts for their construction of meaning, this course looks at the complex ideological operations at stake in the operations, maintenance, and resistance to meanings constructed around race and gender.
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May 8, 2024
This course analyzes the ways in which diverse cultural practices have been used or understood as political weapons, as attempts to intervene in the historical world. The course will introduce students to a number of approaches both theoretical and practical, through readings of source texts and analysis of specific case studies which have investigated the possibility of cultural practice being used as a tool of conflict, dissent, affirmation of identity and resistance.
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May 8, 2024
This course introduces writing and reporting techniques for the mass media. It focuses on the essential elements of writing for the print, online and broadcast media. The course also covers media criticism, ethics in media, and the formats and styles of public relations.
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May 8, 2024
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May 8, 2024
This course allows students the opportunity to combine digital media art skills with community engagement. In partnership with a Rome-based nonprofit working with disadvantaged or marginalized communities, students will create 2-3 short documentary projects that will be created collaboratively with the community at the non-profit organization. The aim is to use media tools as a means of cultural exchange and to facilitate the telling of stories that emerge from this community.
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May 8, 2024
This course surveys films, directors, and film movements and styles in Italy from 1945 to the present. The films are examined as complex aesthetic and signifying systems with wider social and cultural relationships to post-war Italy. The role of Italian cinema as participating in the reconstitution and maintenance of post-War Italian culture and as a tool of historiographic inquiry is also investigated.
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May 8, 2024
Professionals in contemporary video production are increasingly required to demonstrate proficiency in a variety of areas that were once the preserve of specialists: the cameraman of old is more often than not today’s writer/director/camera operator/editor/sound mixer. This course aims to help students produce a body of work that will enable them to continue their professional development as part of a graduate program or by working in the field.
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May 8, 2024
As we transition from an industrial model of media distribution to networked communications, corporations and grassroots environmental activists are vying to define environmental opinion in an evolving media landscape. By applying media literacy tools to examine paradigms of communication and ecology we will seek to understand how media impact environmental concepts, and explore media strategies for addressing issues such as global climate change. The course covers three core concepts: 1)
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May 8, 2024
This course will examine how film is linked to other forms of storytelling such as the novel, short story, and theater. Students will learn to identify, and effectively express, the visual components of literature as well as the literary components of film through an analysis of plot, character, dialogue, setting, theme, and symbolism. Issues related to style, adaptation, translation, and interpretation will also be discussed.
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May 8, 2024
An analysis of the social, aesthetic, political, and rhetorical implications of cinematic representations of Rome, from silent films to the present. This course will evaluate and discuss ten primary films, along with excerpts from a number of others. We will consider five main topics: Images of Ancient Rome; Before and After World War II; “Americans” in Rome, and Rome in America; Fellini’s Rome; and Urban Angst, Roman Style.
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May 8, 2024
The course will be devoted to comix (understood as both serialized comic strips and comic-books) and the more contemporary format of the graphic novel. Other forms of graphic storytelling, ranging from tapestries to childrens book illustrations to the underground graphic productions of the counterculture, will also be investigated, including traditions of sequential art in a global context.
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