The study of films as categorized either by industry-identified genres (westerns, horror films, musicals, film noir, etc.) or broader interpretive modes (melodrama, realism, fantasy, etc.).

This semester, we will explore a range of media works with a focus on cinema and anime, including eco-horror, melodrama, and tech-noir. We will approach contemporary Japanese cinema and anime as participants in a series of transnational conversations about cybernetics, media mix, gaming and database aesthetics as well as on emergent forms of sociality (gender, race, sexuality) intimated by the reconfigurations of communication technologies. In addition to discussing the transcultural give and take of media theory, we will explore the various intersections of Japanese cinema with other media forms in order to challenge some of our basic assumptions about the geographies of global media.

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