How we understand our world is integrally related to the forms of media and artistry we encounter. The First year Writing Seminars offered through Performing and Media Arts ask students to engage critically with a range of materials and perspectives to enhance their analytic and academic writing skills. Classes may focus on film, television, digital media, sound, theatre, dance, or other performance or media artistry.

Full details for PMA 1100 - FWS: Critical Approaches to Performing and Media Arts

In high school, I wasn’t allowed to use “I” in an essay. But now that I’m in university, “I argue” or “We observe” or something similar is in almost every article or book I’ve been assigned. When or how did “I” enter into an academic argument? When did or how do “I” enter into the university? For those of us who have entered into major spaces from backgrounds considered minor, our class seeks to critically understand the ways minoritarian people have and will make space in academia. Through exercises in “personalized” writing genre like performance reviews and conducting interviews, this course finds meanings in scholarly relations to people, texts, events, and performances through theoretical frameworks and turns these findings into cogent arguments.

Full details for PMA 1184 - FWS: Writing Our Minoritarian Selves in(to) the Academy

The Media Production Lab course is a series of self-contained lecture/workshops on various topics in the production of film and video on-set and on-location. The workshops will be hands on experience with cameras, lighting and sound equipment, exploring the technique of cinematography as well as, lighting, sound, and grip techniques for the studio and in the field. We will cover specific areas such as dollies and rigging, location sound, and production protocol. Open to all skill levels. (PDL)

Full details for PMA 1410 - Media Production Laboratory

This technology lab will provide students with a foundation of the production process through experiential learning of scenographic practices. Students will learn about the technical production processes as they pertain too: scenery fabrication and installation, properties fabrication, costume fabrication, and lighting installation (primarily lighting for live performance). (PDL)

Full details for PMA 1610 - Production Technology Laboratory

Students participating in a PMA creative project led by a faculty member or PMA Guest Artist can earn PMA 1611 credit.

Full details for PMA 1611 - Rehearsal and Performance

The Student Laboratory Theatre Company (SLTC) is a group of student-actors who earn credit by acting in two or three scenes directed by students taking PMA 4880.

Full details for PMA 1670 - Student Laboratory Theatre Company

The Colloquium provides opportunities for exchange, reflection, discussion of relevant concepts, and extended engagement with the media objects made in a variety of Making Media courses.

Full details for PMA 2000 - Media Studies Minor Colloquium

Contemporary Movement Practices is an intermediate-level studio immersion in contemporary concert dance genres and methodologies germane to the 21st-century field. In-depth modules will extract and explore most notably from Bartenieff Fundamentals? and Countertechnique?, as well as ripen the sensibility and capacity for current trends and approaches to dynamic floorwork, such as Flying-Low?. The objective is to cultivate and champion a dynamic anatomy and body consciousness built on learned perception, sensation, and organization. This is achieved through the experiential research and framing of Total Body Connectivity, which is based on the perennial work of Irmgard Bartenieff: Breath, Head/Tail, Core/Distal, Upper/Lower Body, Body Halves, and Diagonal. (PMA-EP)

Full details for PMA 2221 - Contemporary Dance Technique

Intensive, real-world experiences that bridge classroom learning with professional practice. This course is a structured, credit-bearing experiential learning course that provides substantive academic and professional preparation for students enrolled in the Cornell in Los Angeles program. While the course includes industry excursions, its credit hours are also earned through the rigorous intellectual and professional work students complete before, during, and after those site visits. This course requires students to apply that knowledge in real-world contexts through guided engagement with studios, creative executives, industry networks, and cultural institutions central to contemporary performance and media.

Full details for PMA 2401 - Industry Immersions

What does it mean to call a film is Jewish? Does it have to represent Jewish life? Does it have to feature characters identifiable as Jews? If artists who identify as Jews-actors, directors, screenwriters, composers-play significant roles in a film's production does that make it Jewish? Our primary point of entry into these questions will be Hollywood, from the industry's early silent films, through the period generally considered classical, down to the present day. We will also study films produced overseas, in countries that may include Israel, Egypt, France, Italy, and Germany. Our discussions will be enriched by contextual material drawn from film studies, cultural studies, Jewish studies, American studies, and other related fields. Students will be expected to view a significant number of films outside of class-an average of one per week-and engage with them through writing and in-class discussion. The directors, screenwriters, composers, and actors whose work we will study may include: Charlie Chaplin, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Billy Wilder, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Aviva Kempner, Joan Micklin Silver, the Marx Brothers, and the Coen Brothers.

Full details for PMA 2490 - Jewish Films and Filmmakers: Hollywood and Beyond

Contemporary World Cinema offers an introduction to some of the most acclaimed international films of the 21st century. We will consider narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental films from multiple national and transnational contexts. We will examine both dominant and alternative forms of storytelling, how funding institutions, festivals, and awards shape the global circulation of films, how genres get transformed internationally, and how films intervene in how we think about specific social issues and political contexts. Specific films and case studies may vary from year to year. (PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 2512 - Contemporary World Cinema

What is cinema? Does film represent the world, or does it create new ones? Does film help us understand how we see and think, or has it changed our very forms of perception? In this course, students contemplate cinema as a technology, an art form, a mass medium, and a mode of perception. We will explore a range of key debates in film theory, from the early twentieth century to the present. We will consider a variety of topics lying at the intersection of formal-aesthetic and socio-ideological approaches to film, including medium specificity, spectatorship, apparatus, realism, and questions relating to film ontology more generally. We will also consider how feminist, postcolonial, and black film criticism have restructured discourses about the image. The course will train students in the vocabulary of film analysis while introducing them to cinema as a central site for thinking about modernity, politics, aesthetics, and global visual culture.

Full details for PMA 2591 - Introduction to Film Theory

Learn what it means to run a live show. Participate as part of a team to ensure all the elements work together and on time. Learn the intricacies of collaborating with a production group to create a unified artistic vision. Program lighting, sound, or video boards, or participate as a dresser, stage crew member, or assistant stage manager.

Full details for PMA 2610 - Production Crew Laboratory

This course introduces students to basic two-dimensional techniques of makeup design and application for the stage including corrective, old age, youth, likeness, cross gender, and animal makeups. The process of stylizing imagery in makeup design is explored. Students will also work with false facial hair. (PMA-DE)

Full details for PMA 2640 - Theatrical Makeup Studio

The musical is a distinct and significant form of American performance. This course will consider the origins, development, and internationalization of the American musical and will emphasize the interpenetration of the history of musical theatre with the history of the United States in the 20th century and beyond. We will investigate how political, social, and economic factors shape the production of important American musical-and how in turn musicals shape expressions of personal identity and national ideology. Key texts include Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Hair, and Rent. (ENGL-LOA, ENGL-PST, MUSIC-HC, PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 2650 - The American Musical

More than 400 years after his death, Shakespeare remains an inescapable part of world culture. His influence can be traced at every level, from traditional art forms like theater, poetry, and opera to popular genres like Broadway musicals, science fiction, crime thrillers, and romcoms. Contemporary adaptations and bold re-stagings of his plays abound that reflect his deep understanding of sexual and gender fluidity, racial and class antipathy, and the complex workings of political power. In this course, we'll focus on five plays that continue to generate creative responses across many media: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. The class counts toward the pre-1800 requirement for English majors. (ENGL-PRE)

Full details for PMA 2681 - Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

This interdisciplinary course offers an introduction to the methods employed in media arts, sound and performance. It provides a comprehensive exploration of the strategies and historical context of these disciplines. Students will engage in an interdisciplinary studio setting with a specific focus on one of these areas. Through hands-on experience, they will delve into contemporary artistic practices, honing their technical skills to develop and realize their creative projects. Potential topics covered include video and animation, digital image production, sound art, performance art, and movement (ART-STU)

Full details for PMA 2701 - Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Intersections

From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, Thinking Media offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three millennia. Featuring an array of guests from across Cornell, including faculty from Communication, Comparative Literature, German Studies, Information Science, Literatures in English, Music, and Performing & Media Arts, the course will present diverse perspectives on how to think with, against, and about media in relation to the public sphere and private life, archaeology and science fiction, ethics and aesthetics, identity and difference, labor and play, knowledge and power, expression and surveillance, and the generation and analysis of data. (MUSIC-HC)

Full details for PMA 2703 - Thinking Media

An introduction to the actor's technique and performance skills, exploring the elements necessary to begin training as an actor, i.e., observation, concentration, and imagination. Focus is on physical and vocal exercises, improvisation, and text and character. There is required play reading, play attendance, and some scene study. (PMA-EP)

Full details for PMA 2800 - Introduction to Acting

Independent study allows students the opportunity to pursue special interests not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's instructor for the course, must approve the student's program of study and agree to provide continuing supervision of the work.

Full details for PMA 3000 - Independent Study

What do we learn when we turn an ear to the commons? Who determines what sounds are desirable or undesirable in a community and what are the stakes of that negotiation when it comes to public space? This seminar will study the ways that individuals and communities use sound and music to self-identify, claim space, and shape their public spaces. We will engage the work of artists who have called our attention to the social aspects of listening. We will listen to public art projects, films, concerts, field recordings, installations, informal sonic practices, and political interventions as we read about the contested control of public space. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 3104 - Sound, Music, Public Space

This is a design studio course that examines and implements dance/theater/movement as mechanisms for service-learning through community-based and community-driven art grounded in mutual aid, collective action, social transformation, and continuous critical reflection. Through studying and practicing skills and frameworks for action research, archival practice, identity and positionality, ethics of care and facilitation, resource-sharing, place-making, and participatory meaning-making and co-production, students engage in sustained, experiential learning and fieldwork with a Community Partner, culminating in a collaborative community art practice and original project of local import at Cornell or across the greater Ithaca area. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 3242 - Choreographing Community: From Civic to Public and Socially Engaged Art-Making

This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often overlapping, entryways into theoretical analysis, including structuralism and post-structuralism, translation studies, Black studies, Afro-Diasporic Studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, performance studies, media theory and cinema/media studies, the digital humanities, psychoanalysis and trauma theory, gender studies and queer studies, studies of the Anthropocene/environmental studies, and animal studies. Occasional invited guests, lectures and class discussions will provide students with a facility for close textual analysis, a knowledge of major currents of thought in the humanities, and an appreciation for the uniqueness and complexity of language and media.

Full details for PMA 3421 - Literary Theory on the Edge

Anchoring the East and West coasts, New York and Los Angeles have been celebrated and excoriated in films. On the edge literally and metaphorically, these cities seem to be about competing visions of urban form, culture, and modernity. The iconic forms of New York (tenements and skyscrapers) and of Los Angeles (highways and suburban homes) have fascinated film makers from the nineteenth century to the present day. We will both evoke and complicate the contrasts between New York and Los Angeles by mapping the intersections of each city with cinema. We explore how the urban experience gives rise to particular cinematic forms and how cinematic styles are translated or not into urban design. (PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 3441 - Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles

This course is a film genres courses dedicated to the basketball film. It provides a cultural and transmedia history of the sport and genre.

Full details for PMA 3462 - Film Genres: The Basketball Film

This course places the global film and television industry within the economic and historical context of its production, circulation, and consumption. Students explore how the aesthetic systems at work in these industries should not be separated from their underlying commercial ambitions. With readings from major film scholars and industry personnel, students learn about the workings of Hollywood revealing the delicate balance between industry and art, between entertainment and commercial enterprise, between ?show? and ?business.? (PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 3482 - Understanding the Creative Media Industries in Los Angeles

This course explores the rich performing and media arts history and practices in Los Angeles, California. Students explore how the city?s cultural institutions have been shaped by the city?s history and evolving identity. Engaged in a multidisciplinary conversation about live and mediated art practices, this course considers how Los Angeles functions as an epicenter for global performing and media industries. Balancing readings from film and media, theater, dance, and performance studies, students learn about the various artist figures, communities, and movements that shape the City of Angels. (PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 3483 - Performing and Media Arts in Los Angeles

An introduction (without prerequisites) to fundamental problems of current political theory, filmmaking, and film analysis, along with their interrelationship. Particular emphasis on comparing and contrasting European and alternative cinema with Hollywood in terms of post-Marxist, psychoanalytic, postmodernist, and postcolonial types of interpretation. Filmmakers/theorists might include: David Cronenberg, Michael Curtiz, Kathryn Bigelow, Gilles Deleuze, Rainer Fassbinder, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Marleen Gorris, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Allen & Albert Hughes, Stanley Kubrick, Fredric Jameson, Chris Marker, Pier-Paolo Pasolini, Gillo Pontecorvo, Robert Ray, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, George Romero, Steven Shaviro, Kidlat Tahimik, Maurizio Viano, Slavoj Zizek. Although this is a lecture course, there will be ample time for class discussions. Weekly film screening, TBA. Taught in English.

Full details for PMA 3490 - Political Theory and Cinema

A course that creates films through various cameras and tools. Using everything from film still photography to 16mm film and digital cameras, students will make diverse and experimental films. This class encourages students to step outside the traditional boundaries of cinema and create new and experimental projects. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 3508 - Material Filmmaking (Experimental Film): 16mm Film, Photo, Animation

This course explores the fundamentals of writing for the screen. The course format will include creative writing assignments, class discussion, screenings and workshop. Students will produce short film scripts, film analysis papers and feedback on student work. The semester will culminate in a revision of a longer film script and presentation. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 3531 - Screenwriting

An introduction to filmmaking, students will learn to create compelling characters, as well as develop strong storytelling skills through basic character and story development and breakdown, cinematography, lighting, sound and editing. Over the course of the semester, students will deconstruct and analyze visual culture in an effort to learn effective techniques in visual storytelling. Students will write, shoot and edit a series of dramatic narrative exercises, participating in the preproduction to post production processes. Students will collaborate and rotate through various roles. The course will culminate with the screening of the various course projects, in a public, open-campus event at the end of the semester. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 3570 - Film and Video Production I

Based on previous coursework and experience, students may be offered the opportunity to participate as an apprentice in a mentored PMA creative project. The apprentice experience and number of credits will be defined by the needs of the project, the area of study, and the mentor. Apprentice roles may include Assistant Director, Assistant Designer, Assistant Choreographer, Dramaturg, or others, as determined by the mentor. Successful completion of this course is necessary for application to the AUPR program.

Full details for PMA 3610 - Creative Apprenticeship

Design of costumes for theatre and film, concentrating on script and character analysis, period research, design elements, figure drawing and rendering skills, and an understanding of production style. (PMA-DE)

Full details for PMA 3660 - Costume Design Studio I

Covering the basics of digital audio, bioacoustics, psychoacoustics and sound design, as they apply to theatre, film and music production. Students create soundscapes for text and moving image using ProTools software. (MUSIC-MT, PMA-DE)

Full details for PMA 3680 - Sound Design

This course is designed to introduce students to a range of historical, cross-cultural, and transnational performance texts, theories, and practices; to motivate students to examine the broad social, political, cultural, and economic contexts in which performances take place; and to familiarize students with major methodologies and paradigms for the creation, spectatorship, and interpretation of performances. (PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 3750 - Global Theatre and Performance

Practical exploration of the actor's craft through exercises in physical and psychological action, improvisation and scene study. (PMA-EP)

Full details for PMA 3800 - Acting II

In this introductory class, students will study elements of successful dramatic writing: strong structure, effective dialogue, and imaginative theatricality. Students will craft and revise short plays, in addition to drafting several short assignments and one analytical paper. Readings include full-length and 10-minute plays. Through giving and receiving constructive feedback, each writer will aim to take their work to new levels of complexity, theatricality, and meaning. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 3805 - Playwriting I

This independent study course is part of the semester long Cornell in Los Angeles program where students will work on their independent projects.

Full details for PMA 3999 - Directed Study

This production seminar is for students with basic documentary filmmaking skills who want to work with previously collected footage and/or are in production on a project in or around Ithaca. Over the course of the semester, students complete a documentary film based on an immersive engagement with their selected subject matter. Alongside watching and discussing relevant texts and films, students will complete exercises to help them focus their projects, build a cohesive narrative, learn script writing, brainstorm scene ideas, overcome narrative challenges, discover their aesthetic, and develop a film circulation plan. Students will regularly present new footage and scenes and explain their work in terms their goals for the final project. The course culminates in a public screening of students' independent video projects. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 4401 - Documentary Production II

This course focuses on the mutually constitutive relationship between media technologies and society, approaching media not as a set of technologies but as a set of practices, infrastructures, and struggles over meaning and power. Central to the course is a practice of reading one thing and/as another. We will read media objects in terms of their visual, aural, spatial, or informational registers, but also as sites of mediation structured by systems of power and difference. Throughout the course, we will think with artists and/as theorists, attending to arguments made through artistic gestures and to the creative, at times deeply experimental practices of scholars whose need and ability to hold two ideas in various forms of relation to one another mirrors an artistic practice.

Full details for PMA 4412 - Media Metaphors

This seminar examines “experimental media”, an umbrella term for experimental literature, poetry, film, video, photography, music, radio, theater, sound art, computer games, and other new media. With a focus on the twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-speaking world, we will discuss aesthetic experiments with form, structure, and materiality. With a view toward interdisciplinarity, our guiding questions will address the distinctions between art and non-art, amateurs and experts, and experimental and commercial media, as well as the possibilities of collaboration and the limits of the experimental method. While coursework will primarily involve reading, writing, and thinking about aesthetic texts and humanistic scholarship, there will be some hands-on work with media objects and experimental media archeology. Taught in English.

Full details for PMA 4444 - Experimental Media

Since the first live sporting event was televised in 1939, sports and television have enjoyed a privileged relationship. Sports coverage has driven technological advances in television production, while also serving as an economic linchpin for broadcast media. Meanwhile, the political activism and personal lives of athletes have generated controversy, captivating news media. This course will examine the medium of television from postwar to present, using sports to explore American politics, nationalism, identity, celebrity, and audiences, as well as media industries, consolidation, and the transition to digital streaming platforms. It will likewise engage with important narrative television centered around sports, including recent hits, Heated Rivalry and Off Campus, as well as the "sportification" of television more broadly, such as with the rise of competitive cooking shows.

Full details for PMA 4446 - Sports TV: Athletes, Industries, Audiences

This course will explore the cultural, political and social ramifications of stand-up comedy through the lens of twentieth and twenty-first century stand up comedians. Because of streaming services, Stand Up is more accessible than ever to a wider audience. Too, streamed video is not subject to the censorship rules of broadcast television so the wider array of subject matter and the way that subject can be presented is direct and fearless, making comics not just entertainers, but cultural influencers in a much broader way that earlier cultural critics, such as Lenny Bruce and Moms Mabley could only imagine. This newfound influence makes Stand Up comedians and their comedy ripe for study, not only within a cultural context but also as a part of free-speech arguments. (PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 4671 - Funny Business: Stand Up Comedy and Its Social, Political, and Cultural Importance

This course explores the increasing presence of all the arts in prisons throughout the country and examines the increasing scholarship surrounding arts programs and their efficacy for incarcerated persons. The course uses video's, archival material, reading material and in-person or Zoom interviews to investigate how and why art is taught in prisons. The course will also look at art produced by incarcerated artists as well as art by those who are still practicing after going home. And finally, the course will explore the increasing scholarship around the impact practicing the arts while incarcerated has on recidivism rates and preparation for re-entry. (PMA-HTC)

Full details for PMA 4681 - Cages and Creativity: Arts in Incarceration

In this upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar, students will analyze the survival strategies employed by people (of color) assigned female at birth as they perform versions of queer masculinities—on stage, on screen, in literature, in visual culture, and in everyday life.

Full details for PMA 4702 - Performing Queer Masculinities

This class focuses on advanced challenges for the stage presented by particular authors or plays that have a particular stylistic or structural demand. Focuses on advanced challenges for the stage. Monologues and scenes are drawn from Shakespeare and classical sources. (PMA-EP)

Full details for PMA 4800 - Advanced Scene Study

Builds on the directing techniques learned in Fundamentals of Directing I. In this course each student directs actors from the Student Laboratory Theatre Company in a series of projects and public presentations focusing on specific directorial challenges. (PMA-AU)

Full details for PMA 4880 - Fundamentals of Directing II

First of a two-semester sequence (the second is PMA 4951) for seniors engaged in an honors project. Honor guidelines and form.

Full details for PMA 4950 - Honors Research Tutorial I

Second of a two-semester sequence (the first is PMA 4950) for students engaged in an honors project.

Full details for PMA 4951 - Honors Research Tutorial II

What do we learn when we turn an ear to the commons? Who determines what sounds are desirable or undesirable in a community and what are the stakes of that negotiation when it comes to public space? This seminar will study the ways that individuals and communities use sound and music to self-identify, claim space, and shape their public spaces. We will engage the work of artists who have called our attention to the social aspects of listening. We will listen to public art projects, films, concerts, field recordings, installations, informal sonic practices, and political interventions as we read about the contested control of public space.

Full details for PMA 5104 - Sound, Music, Public Space

This course focuses on the mutually constitutive relationship between media technologies and society, approaching media not as a set of technologies but as a set of practices, infrastructures, and struggles over meaning and power. Central to the course is a practice of reading one thing and/as another. We will read media objects in terms of their visual, aural, spatial, or informational registers, but also as sites of mediation structured by systems of power and difference. Throughout the course, we will think with artists and/as theorists, attending to arguments made through artistic gestures and to the creative, at times deeply experimental practices of scholars whose need and ability to hold two ideas in various forms of relation to one another mirrors an artistic practice.

Full details for PMA 6412 - Media Metaphors

This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often overlapping, entryways into theoretical analysis, including structuralism and post-structuralism, translation studies, Black studies, Afro-Diasporic Studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, performance studies, media theory and cinema/media studies, the digital humanities, psychoanalysis and trauma theory, gender studies and queer studies, studies of the Anthropocene/environmental studies, and animal studies. Occasional invited guests, lectures and class discussions will provide students with a facility for close textual analysis, a knowledge of major currents of thought in the humanities, and an appreciation for the uniqueness and complexity of language and media.

Full details for PMA 6421 - Literary Theory on the Edge

This seminar examines “experimental media”, an umbrella term for experimental literature, poetry, film, video, photography, music, radio, theater, sound art, computer games, and other new media. With a focus on the twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-speaking world, we will discuss aesthetic experiments with form, structure, and materiality. With a view toward interdisciplinarity, our guiding questions will address the distinctions between art and non-art, amateurs and experts, and experimental and commercial media, as well as the possibilities of collaboration and the limits of the experimental method. While coursework will primarily involve reading, writing, and thinking about aesthetic texts and humanistic scholarship, there will be some hands-on work with media objects and experimental media archeology. Taught in English.

Full details for PMA 6444 - Experimental Media

In this upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar, students will analyze the survival strategies employed by people (of color) assigned female at birth as they perform versions of queer masculinities—on stage, on screen, in literature, in visual culture, and in everyday life.

Full details for PMA 6702 - Performing Queer Masculinities

Independent study in performing and media arts allows graduate students the opportunity to pursue special interests not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's instructor for the course, must approve the student's program of study and agree to provide continuing supervision of the work.

Full details for PMA 7000 - Independent Study for Graduate Students in Performing and Media Arts

Provides graduate students in the field of Performing and Media Arts an opportunity to work directly with a faculty member to explore pedagogical theory and practice in undergraduate theatre classes in all areas of the curriculum.

Full details for PMA 7100 - The Pedagogy of Performing and Media Arts

This production seminar is for students with basic documentary filmmaking skills who want to work with previously collected footage and/or are in production on a project in or around Ithaca. Over the course of the semester, students complete a documentary film based on an immersive engagement with their selected subject matter. Alongside watching and discussing relevant texts and films, students will complete exercises to help them focus their projects, build a cohesive narrative, learn script writing, brainstorm scene ideas, overcome narrative challenges, discover their aesthetic, and develop a film circulation plan. Students will regularly present new footage and scenes and explain their work in terms their goals for the final project. The course culminates in a public screening of students' independent video projects.

Full details for PMA 7401 - Documentary Production II