MEDIA 219

Memory and Media


Please note: this is archived course information from 2020 for MEDIA 219.

Description

How have film, television and new media represented memory and forgetting, and how do these media technologies themselves provide a type of virtual "memory"? How might contemporary digital technologies be changing the way we think about recollection, both personal and collective?

"Memory and Media" explores the relationship between memory and the ways in which it is represented, experienced and embodied through media technologies. Topics covered include: depictions of memory in film/TV/video games, digital memory/forgetting, "prosthetic" memory, media nostalgia, trauma theory and sites of memory.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary critical discourses about memory and representation
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the historical development of ideas about memory and representation
  • Analyse the way that memory is represented across different contemporary media formats, including film, television and new media
  • Engage creatively with possibilities for representing memory through media

Assessment

Coursework only

Availability 2020

Not offered in 2020; planned for 2021 and 2022

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

MEDIA 219: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points from COMMS 100, 104, FTVMS 100, 101, 110, MEDIA 101 and 45 points from any subject in BA courses

Restrictions

FTVMS 219. FTVMS 326, MEDIA 326