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 2010 include:
AMST 382-01 History of Advertising (Kelly Cole)
ARTS 160-02 Digital Art I (Collier Hyams)
ARTS 160-01 Digital Art I (Roberto Bocci)
ARTS 266-01 Video and Animation Studio (Collier Hyams)
ARTS 363-01 Advanced Photography and Digital Art (Roberto Bocci)
ENGL 267-01 Avant-Garde Film (Steven J Wurtzler)
ENGL 280-01 Non-fiction Film & Video (Steven J Wurtzler)
ENGL 337-01 Advanced Scriptwriting (John Glavin)
ITAL 394-01 Ital Amer Lang/Lit/Film (Anna De Fina)
JAPN 412-01 Japanese Anime Film (Michael J McCaskey)
JUPS 400-01 Social Justice Documentary Video (Bernard Joseph Cook)
MUSC 265-01 Music and Television (Robynn Stilwell)
PERS 363-01 Persian Culture and Cinema (Farima Sadigh-Mostowfi)
PORT 332-01 Brazilian Cinema (Vivaldo A Santos)
SPAN 490-01 Spanish Cinema (Alejandro Yarza)
THEO 180-01 Buddhism and Film (Francisca Cho)
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).
