Film & Media Studies

This course addresses how history has been punctuated by civil resistance and disobedience movements whose characteristics, combats, tools, and arms get more sophisticated, shared, and reinvented as time moves forward. It identifies the news as a marker of movements of citizen protest, social opposition, demonstrations (such as Climate), and other acts of disobedience. From Thoreau to Gandhi, from Martin Luther King to the Extinction Rebellion movement, from Radio London (1940-1944) to the fight for the Larzac or the ZAD of Notre-Dames-des-Landes, this course explores how specific movements are born and fed and how media plays a role in the development or the resonance of these actions, from yesterday's press to modern platforms. The course includes analysis, readings, and deconstruction of what is called “civil disobedience and resistance,” in both democracies and authoritarian countries, from yesterday to today.

Japan is one of the world's leading film production powerhouses with countless films produced from the silent era to the present, from artistic to entertainment pieces. This course looks at the history of Japanese films and discusses the unique appeal and problems of Japanese films. 

This is an introductory course to studying screen cultures in their medium specificity by looking at adaptations that make narrative borrowings explicit. Students learn how to diagnostically write about and think with films, which rework popular and literary tales.

In this course, students work with an industry client to develop a project to realization, identifying an area of specialization and consolidating the skills needed to work in the media industries. The main emphasis in this course is practical production, augmented by critical and creative thinking within a range of specializations including Animation, Video Production, Interaction Design or Sound.