Theory of Film and Media

Key theories that inform film and media studies and the discourses that have defined the disciplines.

A historical survey of theoretical approaches to the moving image from 19th century pre-cinematic technologies through the 20th Century rise of cinema and the post-WWII introduction of television.

The paper will focus primarily on analyses of the viewing experience in its historical and socio-cultural contexts, including the industrial revolution, mass culture and modernism/postmodernism.