From environmental experience and pre-cinematic devices to cinema and new media, this course addresses how the relation to time – or temporality – shifts and overlaps historically, individually, and by the moment. Can time be captured if it is always mediated, even by our memories? We will explore this question, and others, through media theory, philosophy, and screenings of narrative and experimental works, in addition to the creation of our own textual and visual materials.
Course Requirements:
Assessment will be based on short writing assignments, creative projects and presentations, peer workshops, course engagement and participation, and a final essay.
Intended Audience:
Undergraduates interested in critical analysis of media and media histories.
Class Format:
Course meets three times per week, with two 1.5 hour-lecture and discussion sessions and a 2.5-hour screening block.