Learning Outcomes

Following the completion of this course, students should have:

1. an understanding of how diverse historical, social and cultural formations of cinematic publics (institutions, networks, collectives and communities) inform each other, as demonstrated through their involvement in class discussion and in course work;
2. the ability to communicate the relationships between the theoretical conception of the “public sphere” and its relationships to cinema and media histories;
3. an understanding of lineages between national and transnational concepts of the state with counter and alternative iterations of publicness;
4. the ability to situate their own personal investment in the theories of cinematic publics and connect them to contemporary trends in the Cinema and Media Studies discipline at large.