Analyzing Media Texts (220-0-20)
Instructors
Michael Anthony Turcios
Meeting Info
Helmerich Auditorium: Mon, Wed 1:00PM - 2:50PM
Overview of class
The aesthetic and cultural seismic activity in recent times has reconfigured the study of audiovisual media. In an ever-evolving media landscape, which analytical methods prepare us to study and produce a variety of media forms?
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of audiovisual textual analysis with a focus on the formal elements, though not exclusive, of film. These include the mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and narrative. Students will acquire the formal vocabulary and apply it across medium specificity, historical and social contexts, and cultural changes.
Complementary to this audiovisual elemental language, we will study sound practices, genre tropes, mainstream and alternative production practices, and spectatorship.
Students will synthesize these frameworks of media textual analyses and examine other forms such radio, television, digital media technologies, and artificial intelligence.
Intended to broaden our understanding of the diversity of media, the course will cohere topics along race, gender and sexuality, class, and minor cinema and media.
By the end, students will demonstrate their mastery of the content through a written research project.
Registration Requirements
This class is reserved for incoming Radio/Television/Film majors until all have had a chance to register; any remaining seats will be released at 1:00pm Friday, September 20th.
Learning Objectives
Acquire the formal vocabulary of media textual analysis and apply the language across media and production practices.
Interpret audiovisual texts with appropriate and relevant methods.
Synthesize critical scholarship with interpretive analyses of audiovisual media to produce research arguments.
Teaching Method
Lecture
Class Materials (Required)
No course material cost.
Class Notes
Film screening attendance is mandatory.
Students are required to attend discussion section, scheduled on Friday.
Class Attributes
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area
Associated Classes
DIS - Annie May Swift Hall 219: Fri 1:00PM - 1:50PM
DIS - Annie May Swift Hall 219: Fri 2:00PM - 2:50PM
DIS - Annenberg Hall G29: Fri 1:00PM - 1:50PM
DIS - Annenberg Hall G29: Fri 2:00PM - 2:50PM
DIS - Annenberg Hall G31: Fri 1:00PM - 1:50PM
DIS - Annenberg Hall G31: Fri 2:00PM - 2:50PM
DIS - Elder Hall 032 Seminar Room: Fri 1:00PM - 1:50PM
DIS - Elder Hall 032 Seminar Room: Fri 2:00PM - 2:50PM