Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media.

Carolina Core: AIU

How the film industry developed and the impact the movies have had on global popular culture. Does not count toward the film studies major.

Carolina Core: AIU

Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze moving images and develop written arguments about film and media.

Carolina Core: AIU

Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820s to the present. Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences.

Carolina Core: GHS

Foundational approaches to media as a means of defining and distributing social power in everyday life.

Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries.

Intensive study of a specific topic in popular film and media. May be repeated up to three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Survey of Classical Hollywood Cinema in aesthetic, cultural, political, and economic contexts.

Exploration of the different forms and functions of stardom and celebrity and investigation of how a variety of performers and performance traditions within the histories of film, television, music and new media can be understood in relation to industrial, technological, and socio-cultural influences.

Survey of the history of African American cinema that engages questions of culture, politics, race, and representation in American society.

Examination of how music guides audience interpretation and shapes Hollywood film style.

Examination of the superhero within and across media, industries, and eras addressing topics such as genre, style, seriality, remediation, franchising, and fandom.

Examination of the post-1975 blockbuster film phenomenon with an emphasis on marketing, finance, and reception.

Intensive study of a specific topic concerning a medium or mediums other than film. May be repeated up to three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Examination of American television as an industry, art form, medium of social representation, and set of viewer practices.

Introduction to the critical study of African American representation on American television.

The history, politics, and culture of digital and emerging media, including the internet, social media, AI, algorithms, platforms, and smart devices.

Examination of industrial structures, network histories, production cultures, and regulation contexts of contemporary British television.

Scholarly study of the formal and aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books, and other related forms.

Study of the history of the American comic book industry.

Intensive study of a specific topic in comics studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Intensive study of a specific topic in film and media centered outside the U.S. May be repeated up to three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Examines representations of the Middle East on screen within multiple media-making traditions and considers their aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions.

Survey of the transnational history of Hong Kong action cinema and introduction to critical approaches through which it has been studied.

Survey of Chinese language cinema. Chinese film history and vocabulary with which to discuss film texts. Covers classic leftwing cinema, Hong Kong martial arts films, as well as the Hong Kong, Taiwan, and PRC New Waves. Taught in English. Films subtitled.

Intensive study of a specific topic concerning film and media forms and/or practices outside the commercial mainstream. May be repeated as many as three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Survey of key examples and tendencies in the history of experimental film.

History, theory, and practices of documentary film and media.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and program director is required.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Critical study of a popular genre (e.g., horror, science fiction, melodrama), or set of genres, in film and media. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title. May be repeated as topics vary.

Internship in Film and Media Studies. (Variable) Supervised professional experience working with media production, distribution, exhibition, archiving, and/or education.

Intensive study of a specific topic in film and media history. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Cross-listed course: ARTH 569, MART 592

Intensive study of a specific topic in film and media studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Cross-listed course: ARTH 551, MART 591

Intensive study of a specific topic in U.S. film and media studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 566, MART 593

Foundational techniques in multidisciplinary software development, specifically of applications designed to present sensitive, sometimes controversial, materials in ways to engender empathic awareness of the interactor.

Intensive study of a specific topic concerning films produced in a country other than the United States. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Cross-listed course: FORL 598, MART 594

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning