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AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES (L98)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2018

L98 AMCS 429AMass Culture & Modern Media Fantasylands: Cinema, Spectatorship, and the Spatial Imagination3.0 Units
Description:This semester, our seminar examines cinema's relationship to urbanism, modern life, and amusement culture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. This exploration is meant to facilitate a broader understanding of cinema by situating the medium in relation to the new forms of spatiality, temporality, and mobility that were consonant with "modernity." In particular, we will focus on commercial entertainments and spaces that produced stunning artificial environments, exotic virtual voyages, and a thrilling sense of bodily disorientation, while contributing to the formation of specific publics. By considering cinema's historical relation to these entertainments and locales, we can better understand cinema's connections to industrial capitalism, urbanization, consumer culture, aesthetic modernism, colonialism, and other kinds of distancespanning media and technology. Along the way, we will encounter a variety of modern spaces, places, and forms of transit. These include: the shopping arcade, the railway journey, the amusement park, the world's fair, the glass house, the studio city, the circular panorama, the slum, the department store, and the expedition. In the process, students will be introduced to relevant theories of space and place, urbanism, modern media, consumerism, and mass culture. For graduate students and advanced undergraduate students, with the permission of the instructor. No other prerequisites. REQUIRED SCREENINGS: Wednesdays @ 4pm
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L53 429Frequency:Every 2-3 Years / History
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