Film and Media Studies Initiative
The Georgetown College Film and Media Studies Initiative seeks to create a dynamic new program at the intersections of media study and practice. In the program, students will study film and media history and theory, and will create original scripts and videos, engaging in dialogue between history, theory, and production, and gaining a comprehensive critical understanding of moving image media. The Initiative builds upon existing scholarship and teaching in Film and Media Studies across the College and complements new programs in Theater and Performance and American Music Culture by extending the focus on America Culture and Performance to include consideration of film and moving image media, the dominant art forms of the 20th and 21st centuries. Film and Media Studies faculty will conduct research and teach courses which critically and creatively engage the real world.
Film and Media Studies courses offered in Spring 2009 include:
ARTS-160-01 Digital Art (Bocci)
ARTS-266-01 Video and Animation Studio (Hyams)
ENGL-276-01 Avant-Garde Film (Wurtzler)
ENGL-280-01 Radical Media (Wurtzler)
ENGL-285-01 Postcolonial Film (Pinto)
ENGL-336-01 Tutorial: Intermediate Screenwriting (Glavin)
ENGL-337-01 Tutorial: Advanced Screenwriting (Glavin)
FREN-434-01 Contemporary Quebec Society in Film (Santoro)
ITAL-337-01 Italian Cinema (Benedetti)
JAPN-412-01 Japanese Anime Film (McCaskey)
JUPS-400-01 Social Justice Documentary Video (Cook)
MUSC-260-01 Introduction to Film Music (Stilwell)
SPAN-358-01 Hispanic Cinema: Spain (Baquero-Pecino)
Watch films from the American Civilization III: Documentary class.
The Film and Media Studies Initiative supports collaboration between faculty and students. One example of such collaboration, Why Y'all Are Here (2008), is a documentary about service learning which follows a group of 20 Georgetown undergraduates and 4 academic deans during an Alternative Spring Break trip to Biloxi, MS. This documentary short was shot and edited by Bernie Cook and Natalie Murchison (C'10).
