16.7 2nd and 3rd year Jodi Brooks. First semester One 1-hour lecture (plus occasional 1/2-hour screenings with lecture) and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have an understanding of the relationships between culture, technology and aesthetic form using specific case studies (early forms of film entertainment, early television);
• have an understanding of the history of the changing forms and sites of popular media spectacles;
• be familiar with the history of popular media forms and technologies as spectacle (using these case studies) in relation to other cultural forms;
• be familiar with contemporary and past debates over the value and gendering of popular media forms;
• be introduced to cultural studies theories of spectatorship and the idea of 'distraction'.

This subject introduces students to a cultural studies approach to the popular media. The subject will look at both the history of popular media forms (placing these cultural forms in the context of modernity - the city crowd, spectacle and ideas of distraction), and how the popular media has been theorised and valued in the twentieth century. Written work of up to 5,000 words. Course reader available from the department Garber M et al Media Spectacles. Foster H ed Vision and Visuality Bay Press. Hansen M Babel & Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film Harvard UP. Mellencamp P ed Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism Indiana UP & BFI. Petro P ed Fugitive Images Indiana. Wolfgang S The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the 19th Century trans A Holo Urizen Screenings: A broad range of film, television and video work will be screened, including examples of early cinema (the films of Melies); American experimental film and video, and examples of contemporary 'spectacular' cinema 16.7 2nd and 3rd year Jodi Brooks. First semester One 1-hour lecture (plus occasional 1/2-hour screenings with lecture) and one 2-hour tutorial. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have an understanding of the relationships between culture, technology and aesthetic form using specific case studies (early forms of film entertainment, early television);
• have an understanding of the history of the changing forms and sites of popular media spectacles;
• be familiar with the history of popular media forms and technologies as spectacle (using these case studies) in relation to other cultural forms;
• be familiar with contemporary and past debates over the value and gendering of popular media forms;
• be introduced to cultural studies theories of spectatorship and the idea of 'distraction'.

This subject introduces students to a cultural studies approach to the popular media. The subject will look at both the history of popular media forms (placing these cultural forms in the context of modernity - the city crowd, spectacle and ideas of distraction), and how the popular media has been theorised and valued in the 20th-century. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Course reader available from the department Garber M et al Media Spectacles. Foster H ed Vision and Visuality Bay Press. Hansen M Babel & Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film Harvard UP. Mellencamp P ed Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism Indiana UP & BFI. Petro P ed Fugitive Images Indiana. Wolfgang S The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the 19th Century trans Anselm Holo, Urizen Screenings: A broad range of film, television and video work will be screened, including examples of early cinema (the films of Melies); American experimental film and video, and examples of contemporary 'spectacular' cinema 16.7 Jodi Brooks. First semester. One 1-hour lecture (plus occasional 1/2-hour screenings with lecture) and one 2-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have an understanding of the relationships between culture, technology and aesthetic form using specific case studies (early forms of film entertainment, early television);
• have an understanding of the history of the changing forms and sites of popular media spectacles;
• be familiar with the history of popular media forms and technologies as spectacle (using these case studies) in relation to other cultural forms;
• be familiar with contemporary and past debates over the value and gendering of popular media forms; and
• be introduced to cultural studies theories of spectatorship and the idea of "distraction".

This subject introduces students to a cultural studies approach to the popular media. The subject will look at both the history of popular media forms (placing these cultural forms in the context of modernity - the city crowd, spectacle and ideas of distraction), and how the popular media has been theorised and valued in the twentieth century. Written work of up to 5,000 words. Course reader available from the department. Screenings: A broad range of film, television and video work will be screened, including examples of early cinema (the films of Melies) American experiemental film and video, and examples of contemporary "spectacular" cinema