Cinema and Media Studies

Bachelor's degree

In Chicago (USA)

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Chicago (USA)

For more than a century, and across widely different cultures, film has been the primary medium for storytelling, for depicting and exploring the world, and for engaging and shaping the human senses and emotions, memory and imagination. We live in a time in which cinema, the theatrical exhibition of films to a paying public, is no longer the primary venue in which films are consumed. But cinema seems to survive, even as it is being transformed by television, video, and digital media; and these media, in turn, are giving rise to new forms of moving image culture.At the same time, the goal is to situate the cinema (and related media) in broader contexts. These include the formation of visual culture and the history of the senses; modernity, modernism, and the avant-garde; narrative theory, poetics, and rhetoric; commercial entertainment forms and leisure and consumer culture; sexuality and gender; constructions of ethnic, racial, and national identities; and transnational media production and circulation, as well as the emergence of global media publics.Students graduating with a Cinema and Media Studies major will be trained in critical, formal, theoretical, and historical thinking and analysis. The program aims to develop an ability to understand forms of cultural production in relation to wider contexts, as well as to foster discussion and writing skills. Students will gain the tools to approach today’s media environment from a historical and international perspective, and will thus be able to work within a changing mediascape.This interdisciplinary program draws on faculty and courses from UChicago’s Departments of Anthropology, Art History, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, English Language & Literature, Germanic Studies, Music, Romance Languages & Literatures, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and South Asian Languages & Civilizations . The approach is to provide a balanced, rigorous framework within which undergraduates can analyze film and...

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Chicago (USA)
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5801 South Ellis Avenue, 60637

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Subjects

  • Production
  • Media
  • International
  • Image
  • Cinema
  • Media Studies
  • Sound
  • Primary
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Course programme

Introduction to Film Analysis
History of International Cinema I: Silent Era
History of International Cinema II: Sound Era to 1960
History of International Cinema, Part III: 1960 to Present
Advanced Seminar
Cinema and Media Studies courses eligible for the general education requirement in the arts (CMST 14400 Film and the Moving Image, CMST 14500-14599) may not be used to satisfy requirements in the Cinema and Media Studies major or minor.
Introduction to Film Analysis
History of International Cinema I: Silent Era
History of International Cinema II: Sound Era to 1960
History of International Cinema, Part III: 1960 to Present
Advanced Seminar
Production Thesis Workshop - Narrative
Production Thesis Workshop - Non-Fiction
Senior Thesis Workshop
Cinema and Media Studies courses eligible for the general education requirement in the arts (CMST 14400 Film and the Moving Image; CMST 14500-14599) may not be used to satisfy requirements in the Cinema and Media Studies major or minor.
Students must submit a Major Course Agreement Form (and a Further Electives Form if necessary) to the Director of Undergraduate Studies for approval before a major can be officially declared.
Students with permission to pursue the Intensive, Production Thesis Track are required to enroll in CMST 23907 Production Thesis Workshop - Narrative or CMST 23908 Production Thesis Workshop - Non-Fiction depending on the nature of their project, in Winter and Spring Quarters of their final year. This course replaces the requirement for CMST 29900. 
Introduction to Film Analysis
History of International Cinema I: Silent Era
History of International Cinema II: Sound Era to 1960
History of International Cinema, Part III: 1960 to Present
Cinema and Media Studies courses eligible for the general education requirement in the arts (CMST 14400 Film and the Moving Image; CMST 14500-14599) may not be used to satisfy requirements in the Cinema and Media Studies major or minor.

Cinema and Media Studies

Price on request