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Graduate Film Historiography
201 | CCN: 24331
Instructor: Anton Kaes
The goal of this seminar is to understand film as a historical medium in transition. Approaching the history of cinema from our present perspective, we will consider the promises it once elicited and ask how the past... More -
Graduate Topics in Film – Freud and Lacan
240-001 | CCN: 32584
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
Readings of major texts by Freud and Lacan will stress the relations between language, subjectivity, sexuality and the feminist use and/or critique of psychoanalytic concepts. This course will analyze psychoanalysis from three perspectives: 1. as a theory... More -
Graduate Topics in Film: Medium/Environment
240-002 | CCN: 32626
Instructor: Weihong Bao
If Marshall McLuhan surprised us half a century ago by conceiving the content of a medium as another medium and thus posited medium in an ecology and living environment, the terms “medium” and “environment” have undergone substantial... More -
Graduate Topics in Film: Media Theories
240-003 | CCN: 41125
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
This course will offer an introduction to media theory not as a fixed disciplinary form but as a heterogeneous field of inquiry with multiple and competing origins, influences, and applications. Tracing media theory's early 20th century origins... More