2025 Fall

FILM 20 001 - LEC 001

Film and Media Theory

Weihong Bao

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025

Tu, Th

11:00 am - 12:29 pm

Berkeley Art Museum 1T75

Class #:21525

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Film and Media

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 144

Enrolled: 6

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 150

Waitlist Max: 60

Open Reserved Seats:

54 unreserved seats

10 reserved for Film Majors

80 reserved for New Letters & Sciences Transfer Students

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 5 hours of outside work hours per week, 0 to 3 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week, and 0 to 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

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Course Catalog Description

This course is intended to introduce undergraduates to the study of a range of media, including photography, film, television, video, and print and digital media. The course will focus on questions of medium "specificity" or the key technological/material, formal and aesthetic features of different media and modes of address and representation that define them. Also considered is the relationship of individual media to time and space, how individual media construct their audiences or spectators, and the kinds of looking or viewing they enable or encourage. The course will discuss the ideological effects of various media, particularly around questions of racial and sexual difference, national identity, capitalism, and power.