Keywords: mass media
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Contexts
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Abstract: Donald Burgy's 'Contexts' is a commentary on communications. 'All communications are transformed by the contexts through which they pass,' a man tells us at the onset of the work. As this man continues to deliver observations, the camera pulls back repeatedly to reveal that he is speaking from a television ... More »
Evening Compass broadcast
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Abstract: Evening Compass late edition newscast covering day three of Phase II desegregation in Boston Schools. Ed Baumeister summarizes events and reports on school attendance figures. Peter Meade discusses the declining white enrollment in Boston Public Schools. Pam Bullard reports that attendance figures show ... More »
Evening Compass broadcast
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Abstract: Evening Compass newscast covering day three of Phase II desegregation of Boston schools. Ed Baumeister summarizes the day's events and school attendance figures: Peter Meade (Mayor's Office) and Lawrence Carpenter (MDC Police Superintendent) respond to questions about a reduction in police presence; ... More »
Media in Transition, Fall 2004
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Abstract: Centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. Includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital revolution," among other case studies of media transformation and cultural change. Readings ... More »
Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Seminar explores approaches to representation for very distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between story creation and story appreciation is analyzed. Readings are drawn from literary, cinematic criticism, as well as from artist's descriptions of interactive, distributed works. Students ... More »
The Impact of Nuclear Fallout
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Abstract: Earl Ubell is a pioneer among science and health writers in America. After a long, distinguished career at The New York Herald Tribune from 1943 to 1966, he went on to work at both CBS and NBC News. Prominent in the emerging scientific writing community in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a recipient ... More »
The New Spain: 1977-Present, Fall 2005
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Abstract: Deals with the vast changes in Spanish social, political, and cultural life that have taken place since the death of Franco. New freedom from censorship; the re-emergence of strong movements for regional autonomy: the Basque region and Catalonia; the new cinema including Almodvar and Saura; educational ... More »
Way Downtown
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Abstract: 'Way Downtown' combines animated and electronically enhanced still images with scenes of public life from an Asian culture. In the opening sequence a still image is slowly animated to show frantically ticking clocks. Images from advertising and mass media are juxtaposed against scenes of window washers ... More »