Course Description
Contemporary film, television, and digital-media entertainment content and industries in the U.S. Historical, economic, social, cultural, and legal contexts of their emergence and organization. Detailed exploration of current key industry players and key production roles and techniques. In-depth examination of current issues.
Athena Title
Ent Film TV & Digital Media H
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EMST 3010
Prerequisite
Permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- By the end of this course, students will have learned critical language to interrogate contemporary entertainment media, especially issues of visual media texts and storytelling.
- By the end of this course, students will have learned about issues of textual form, economic contexts, historical antecedents, and cultural/ideological discourses for understanding contemporary entertainment media.
- By the end of this course, students will have a theoretical language drawn from the field of media studies and media literacy, which will inform subsequent coursework in the Entertainment and Media Studies Department.
Topical Outline
- The industrial, economic, political, legal, and regulatory contexts of media
- Entertainment media production, practice, and work
- Historical elements of industry technology, content, and/or culture
- Audience practices and media consumption
- Socio-cultural contexts and influence of entertainment media
