Film & Media Studies

This course examines the complex relationships between media and multiple varieties of communities, including national, local, ethnic, and subcultural groups. Through readings from multiple academic fields, the course addresses the media’s potential to change one’s understanding of cultures and how one relates to cultures they see as ‘other,’ as well complicating the divisions between the two. 　 
　 
The first half of the course discusses the role of nations and national cultures in the production, transmission, and consumption of media texts. Then, the course examines the complexities of community in the digital age, focusing on the spread of ideas across national and cultural borders through online participation. 

This course introduces the basic principles of game design, animation, and motion design. It covers fundamental game design concepts such as mechanics and loops, enabling participants to conceptualize and develop playable games. In addition to game design, the course introduces core motion principles, visual design for motion, storyboarding, sequential imagery, and graphic animation.

The course explores key theories that inform film and media studies and the discourses that define these disciplines. It offers an overview of theoretical approaches to moving images and visual cultures, interrogating theories of and through images alongside the politics of visibility, invisibility, and hypervisibility. The course covers topics such as third cinema, media spectacles, and video activism.

Film Music focuses on the seven core points to discuss, concept, characteristics, history, function, direction, aesthetics and critic on it of. The course aims to presenting the frontier knowledge, leading the method, supporting the possibilities about how to questioning and analysis as a film goer and an observer. Comprehensive dimensional scope involved and synchronization both theory and practice will be undertaken. The systematic analysis on film music, the categorization of film music, shown an important feature of the course.

This lecture course traces the history of cinema from its inception to the present day, while examining its characteristics as a “new yet old” medium. By comparing film with “older” media that existed before its birth and “newer” media that have emerged since, we will explore the evolving nature of cinema. The course also pays close attention to how advancements in media technology related to film have transformed the modes of exhibition and distribution. 

In the spring semester, the course focuses on the period from the dawn of silent cinema to the emergence of talkies and the eventual establishment of what is commonly known as “classical Hollywood cinema.” However, the course does not strictly adhere to chronological divisions; rather, it examines several key themes, exploring how they have been represented and how they have changed over time in cinematic history. 

This course examines history of modern Korea from the late nineteenth century to the early 2000s through Korean film by analyzing selected films as historical documents on Korean history, politics, society, and culture. The course explores themes such as the open port period, colonial Korea, liberation/occupation/national division, the Korean War, the post-war development in ROK, military authoritarianism, democratization, the Sunshine Policy, globalization, and multiculturalism. Students examine both the accuracy of each film’s representation of history and the counter narratives of some historical events. 

This course provides a historical survey of British cinema as well as an introduction to critical and theoretical debates associated with national cinema. Examine the relationship between British cinema and British culture, history, and national identity. Consider how British cinema has represented other dimensions of identity such as class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Analyze a range of films in order to explore how British cinema. Lastly, the course considers how specific genres such as the crime film and the period drama have functioned in the national and international marketplace.

The course offers a detailed study of one or more media genres, such as film noir, science fiction, horror, or the musical. It introduces theories of genre and methods of genre analysis. 

This course examines the relationship between the film and their directors regarding their creativity, aesthetics and influences. It focus on different directors from different eras, origin and countries. The emphasis of the director's effort and beliefs together with their professionalism and techniques will also be discussed.

This course focuses on creation of films that allow experimentation in various stages of filmmaking processes, including the development of various alternate forms of (non) narrative story structures. Students are exposed to a range of conceptual and production strategies in experimental film using key historical and contemporary examples and then put those ideas into practice through exercises and projects to develop their own experimental film practice. Experience and knowledge gained in this module provide a basis for more developed experimental film production, as well as complementing research into this field. By the end of the course, students can conceptualize, film, edit, and present their own short experimental films.