History, Memory & Media

Level: Undergraduate, Graduate

Division: The New School for Public Engagement

School: School of Media Studies

Department: Media Studies

Course Number: NMDS 5247

Course Format: Lecture

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• Documentary Filmmaking
• Media Studies

Description:
This seminar focuses on the ways visual culture mediates notions of history. How do visual media, film, video, photography, comics, and the internet constitute, challenge, alter or otherwise impact memory and history? What are the limits of representation of the past? What is the role of memory, collective memory and individual memory (testimony) in the discourse of history? Is there such a thing as transgenerational memory and how does this create new categories for understanding the construction of history? What are the ethical and moral demands on the maker of historical films in the retelling of the past? This class sets out to explore these and other questions through case studies of historical events documented and memorialized in notable fiction and documentary films and videos as well as on the internet and in comics, and the lively literature that has sprung up to interrogate this work.

Restrictions:

College

Open to New School Public Engagement students.

Level

Open to Graduate students.

Major

Open to Documentary Media Studies students.

Open to Environmental Studies students.

Open to Global Studies students.

Open to International Affairs students.

Open to Liberal Arts students.

Open to Media Studies students.

Open to Media Management students.

Open to Media Management students.