FLME 4650 – Media Theory
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Office: 25 Park Pl, 1021D (10th Floor)
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Full Course Syllabus
Media Theory Fall 2020 Hybrid Syllabus

Readings (Password Protected)

Resources
Technology and GSU
GSU College of the Arts Homepage
GSU Film, Media, & Theatre Homepage
GSU Semester Calendars and Exam Schedules
GSU Library Film Studies Home Page
GSU Library Film and Video Research Guides
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – GSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – GSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library
Criterion Channel
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
GSU Counseling Services
GSU Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
GSU Writing Studio
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help
Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour (Stern, 1998)
Media Theory Reading Presentation Sign-Up Sheet
Media Theory Midterm Jeopardy Round 1
Media Theory Midterm Jeopardy Round 2
Play Zork Online – Choose Your Own Adventure Game…

Lecture Notes
Alperstein – Advertising as Social Practice
Andersen – Plato’s Cave and Cinema
Balio – Production: Tentpoles and Franchises
Barthes – Myth Today
Benjamin, Du Gay et al., and Fiske
Crisell – Radio Signs
Danesi – What is Popular Culture?
Feuer – Genre Study and Television
Fiske – Active Audiences & Activated Texts
Foucault – Panopticism
Gramsci & Althusser
Hall – Encoding/Decoding
Hall – Representation, Meaning, and Language
Harman – Semiotics and the Cinema: Metz and Wollen
Hebdige – The Function of Subculture
Henderson – From Barnum to “Bling”
Hollander – Michael Jackson, the Celebrity Cult, and Popular Culture
hooks – Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
Innis – The Bias of Communication
Jenkins – Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten
Jenkins, Ford, & Green – Why Media Spreads
Jhally & Lewis – Enlightened Racism excerpts
Jowett & Abbott – Horror Begins at Home & The Excess of TV Horror
Kellner – Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture
King – Spectacle, Narrative, and the Spectacular Hollywood Blockbuster
Laughey, “What is Media Theory?”
Levy – Raunch Culture
Lotz & Havens – Key Concepts in Media Industry Studies
Manovich – What is New Media?
Marx & Engels, Williams, and Adorno & Horkheimer
McCloud – Understanding Comics
McLuhan – The Medium is the Message & Media Hot and Cold
McQuail – First Approaches
McQuail – Media Genres and Texts
McQuail – The Rise of Mass Media
Mulvey – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Okabe – Cosplay, Learning, and Cultural Practice
Perren – A Big Fat Indie Success Story
Radway – Women Read the Romance
Riot Grrrl, Hanna, and Brecht
Roach – “Going Native”
Schatz – Desilu, I Love Lucy, and the Rise of Network TV
Schatz – The New Hollywood
Seiter – Semiotics, Structuralism, and Television
Shaw – What is Video Game Culture?
Smith – It’s Just a Movie
Warner – In the Time of Plastic Representation
Wasko – Learning From the History of the Field

The Bass Clan!