CINE 240 engages in the study of Media Industries—the course both examines the myriad social and political factors that shape how media structures operate and studies the cultural representations of Media Industries, past, present, and future.
Media Industries encompass traditional sectors such as film, television, radio, and photography as well as digital spheres such as social media, streaming platforms, gaming, apps, search engines, and AI. The ubiquity of media—the ways it determines everything from how we organize our social lives to the strength of our democracies— means we have a responsibility to understand how these cultural and creative industries operate. C
CINE 240 seeks to create a sense of critical distance—to “step back”—from these dynamic industries in order to question how they are shaping local and global cultures, self and community, fact and feeling.