On most Tuesday evenings you may notice a group of students from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities rushing to the third floor of the IT building. What is the hurry? Aren’t Tuesday evenings usually reserved for appointments at the Tuesday market? Well, they just happen to be enrolled in a Film and Media Studies class which meets on Tuesday evenings to watch movies as a part of their class requirement. ENGL 425 Film and Media Studies is one of the new courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities for the Communication strand students. The course is mainly a study of films adapted from novels and plays and an analysis of film form and technique in relation to both.
As part of the requirement for the course the students have to watch films outside of class hours, analyze the film in relation to form, narration, style, technique, and mise-en-scène (setting, lighting, costumes, movement, and music). If it is a film based on a book, the analysis would include a comparison of both. Students usually need to write an analysis of the movie the following day. Some of the books that the students are studying this semester that have been made into movies are The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and a play The Proposal by Anton Chekhov.
Some of the movies watched so far include old classics like The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Cane, Chariots of Fire, and also new ones like Bella, which won the “Crystal Heart Award” for 2007 and the “Grace Award” in 2008 for the Most Inspirational Movie Acting by Eduardo Verástegui. The modern media (TV, radio, internet, etc) is shaping much in our lives today. In fact “Media culture” term talks about a specific kind of culture formed by people across the globe being influenced by the media. Kellner (1995) in his book Media Culture states, “Media culture helps shape the prevalent view of the world and deepest values: it defines what is considered good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil” (p.1). Thus it follows that what we watch is of utmost importance and thus requires our keenest judgment and acute wisdom as it shapes our perception of life and the values we want to develop. The Film and Media Studies class aims to not only teach students to evaluate the movies they watch but also consider what they watch.If you are free on Tuesday evenings and would like to watch a good movie, join our class at 7 pm, IT 328. It is a class to remember.
As part of the requirement for the course the students have to watch films outside of class hours, analyze the film in relation to form, narration, style, technique, and mise-en-scène (setting, lighting, costumes, movement, and music). If it is a film based on a book, the analysis would include a comparison of both. Students usually need to write an analysis of the movie the following day. Some of the books that the students are studying this semester that have been made into movies are The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and a play The Proposal by Anton Chekhov.
Some of the movies watched so far include old classics like The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Cane, Chariots of Fire, and also new ones like Bella, which won the “Crystal Heart Award” for 2007 and the “Grace Award” in 2008 for the Most Inspirational Movie Acting by Eduardo Verástegui. The modern media (TV, radio, internet, etc) is shaping much in our lives today. In fact “Media culture” term talks about a specific kind of culture formed by people across the globe being influenced by the media. Kellner (1995) in his book Media Culture states, “Media culture helps shape the prevalent view of the world and deepest values: it defines what is considered good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil” (p.1). Thus it follows that what we watch is of utmost importance and thus requires our keenest judgment and acute wisdom as it shapes our perception of life and the values we want to develop. The Film and Media Studies class aims to not only teach students to evaluate the movies they watch but also consider what they watch.If you are free on Tuesday evenings and would like to watch a good movie, join our class at 7 pm, IT 328. It is a class to remember.
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