Week Name Description
File MFS 100 Syllabus
URL Introduce yourself on Flip

Please record a short video, with your name, year, and the best movie or TV show you saw this summer
Folder Lecture Slides - first half of semester

Use these slides to study for the midterm exam
URL Library Research Guide: Media and Film Studies

Here is the BSC Library research guide that librarian Melissa Anderson demonstrated in class. 
Folder Lecture slides - second half of semester
File Final Exam Study Guide
Week 2 URL Cara Dickason, “Selling Smart TV Surveillance”
Folder Media Journal Assignment Sheets
Week 3 URL Storm Lake (2021)

Storm Lake (2021) is available to stream for free through the BSC Library.
Week 6 File Bordwell, Thompson, Smith, "The Significance of Film Form"
File Bordwell, Thompson, Smith, "Narrative Form"
Week 8 File Martin Scorsese, “I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain.”
File David Betancourt, “Batgirl has been canceled. Here’s what’s lost.”
File Drew Magary, “Inside Hollywood’s Visual Effects Crisis”
File Samantha Chery, “HBO Max Removes Nearly 200 Episodes of Sesame Street”
Week 10 URL Film Crew Chart & Definitions
URL EXTRA CREDIT opportunity

For extra credit, record a video version of your film scene analysis on Flip. Watch some of your classmates' videos and respond to them in the comments of their video.

Instructions for recording your video:

Introduce yourself.

Introduce the scene you analyzed - what movie it's from, when the scene takes place in the film, and what happens.

Analyze the scene. Point out how the formal elements function, and how they make it emotionally or psychologically effective.

This short video should follow the structure of your written analysis, but since it is spoken, feel free to be more casual and extemporaneous in your speech.
Week 11 File Casey Newton, "Why Vine Died"
Week 13 URL Hyun-Jung Stephany Noh, "Korean Webtoons as an Original Source of Intellectual Property for K-Dramas"
URL Edward Ongweso, Jr., “Ring Nation Is Amazon’s Reality Show for Our Surveillance Dystopia”