PMA 4440

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PMA 4440
Screening the Environment

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This course will examine intersections of film history and the environment. Using German cinema as a case study, we will look at how moving image media have negotiated ecological issues from the early 20th century to the present. We will deal with film texts (from genres including the educational film, the Heimatfilm, and the eco-documentary) as well as material contexts of production and exhibition. Readings will include classic film theoretical texts as well as recent work in environmental history, cultures of travel and tourism, urban ecology, and ecocriticism. We will ask whether a focus on environmental issues can re-invigorate canonical texts of media theory, as well as how current ecocritical perspectives can contribute to film and media studies.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

Comments Weekly film screening, TBA.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4440, GERST 6440, VISST 4441

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18379 PMA 4440   SEM 101

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  • Weekly film screening, TBA.