This course is designed to give you expertise in audio-visual/narrative analysis and introduce you to key methods in the field of cinema studies. You will learn terminology for film’s stylistic and narrative elements, how to identify those elements, and how to analyze the ways that they can make mean...
Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
Research Capstone Course This course explores the near-ubiquitous presence of melodramatic form in modern culture. It will examine melodrama to open up critical questions about the inter-relationship of politics, aesthetics, social injustice, and the place of media in society. The course will draw o...
This course looks at the global city on screen in relation to questions of crime and criminality, surveillance and occupation, hopes and fears, gender and sexuality, resistance and revolution, and space and belonging. While the “global city” occupies a central position in the generation and global ci...
-Fulfills Mason Core Requirement for Arts, and for Global Contexts What is a screen? How do screens shape the visual landscape of everyday life? How are screens embedded in and positioned against various forms of popular culture and expressions of power? This course explores these questions while in...
The Folklore and Mythology concentration offers students the opportunity to study oral literature and traditional artifacts in their historical, cultural and performance contexts. Study in folklore addresses secular tales, songs, proverbs, jokes and material culture items as they are performed within...
