FMST 1192 - POLITICAL MEDIA: FILM AND POWER IN THE 20TH CENTURY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This is a study abroad course taught at the Pittsburgh-London Film Program. This class examines the way media has been constructed and used by elite institutions to advance broad and specific goals for the management of populations and the establishment of political and economic conditions beneficial to those institutions. It also looks at the use of media by progressive and radical groups to challenge those conditions and institutions, beginning in the early twentieth century and expanding in the era of digital media. It includes particular focus on cinema and imperialism, making use of the resources in London and online at the Colonial Film Project. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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