Course: C413: Global
Villages:
Global Screen Cultures
Semester: Spring
2013 Professor: Stephanie DeBoer
e-mail:
sdeboer@indiana.edu
Course Description:
This course
explores intersections among (a) the screen cultures of film, television, video
and computer-generated media and (b) the dynamics globalization.
Globalization,
in its most general sense, has been said to refer to “both to the compression
of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a
whole.” The production, circulation and
reception of film, television, video and digital media have played a
significant role in debates surrounding the both the awareness and implications
of global or transnational processes. Look through any popular or academic
journal or website and you will encounter an overwhelming range of explanations
for how local or global film and media cultures are produced, to what effects
they circulate and the means through which their representations and identities
are engendered.
This course
explores how television, film, video and digital media have been differently produced,
endorsed or critiqued as “global” or “transnational.” For some, such media have been central
platforms for the production of an increasingly interconnected “global
village.” For others, screen media have
been a means for challenging the unequal power dynamics of globalization. For others, they have merely reflected the
inequities of global processes.
This course
will thus provide you with a set of frameworks for understanding and tools for
questioning the terms through which screen media have been produced in relation
to globalization. We will explore the
following range of topics, based in case studies from across the globe
(including Europe, East and South Asia, Africa, Central and North America): the
formation of media capitals, “global” Hollywood, film festival circuits, films
of anti-globalization, satellite television, global TV formats, diasporic TV,
regional video cultures, transnational co-productions, the internet and the
“global village.”
By the end of the course,
you will be able to:
§ Reflect on your
relationships to screen media and the processes, endorsements and critiques of
globalization
§ Understand basic terms and
contexts through which global experiences, information and ideologies might be
mediated by a range of screen media.
§ Analyze and then evaluate
the negotiations and dynamics of power through which institutions, producers
and users mobilize these screen technologies.
§ Utilize writing,
presentational and digital technologies to uncover and critique these dynamics.
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