Media as a Mirror of the Times (497)

WHEN TAUGHT: Fall
PREREQUISITE: TMA 291 & TMA 292
DESCRIPTION: Interdisciplinary approach to media texts as aesthetic and historical documents expressing a people, place, and time.
Fall 2012 topic: Film Noir
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
  • Student will explore media text as cultural and historical documents reflecting social values and anxieties.
  • Students will utilize Interdisciplinary approaches to analyze media texts aesthetically as determined by culture.
  • Close reading of a variety of text will allow students to develop a methodology to understand the role of film text and subtext as well as context.

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