Emphasis in Styles and Genres

Film, television and digital media are forms of creative expression influenced by artistic movements, cultural traditions, and individual inspiration. Students pursuing the Styles and Genres area of emphasis study aesthetics, authorship, genres, and national cinemas within the broader context of the humanities. The courses that make up this track culminate in a capstone experience in which students write a critical, theoretical, or historical essay on the media arts.

The Styles and Genres area is supervised by Professor Victoria Meng. For more information on this area of emphasis, you may contact her at: Victoria.Meng@asu.edu.

FMS majors complete 12 credit hours, or four courses, in their area of emphasis.

Refer to the Schedule of Classes for availability.

300 Level

• FMS 340 Contemporary American Film and Pop Culture (HU)
• FMS 350 Virtual Reality in Film and Media
• FMS 351 Emerging Digital Media (L)
• FMS 354 Studies in Animation
• FMS 369 Science Fiction Studies
• FMS 370 Signs of Aliens: Semiotics of Film & Popular Culture (HU, C)
• FMS 377 Baseball Film
• FMS 394 Music Videos and Its Siblings
• FMS 394 American Directors
• FMS 394 History of Anime
• FMS 394 Films of Francis Ford Coppola
• FMS 394 Chinese Film and Civilization
• FMS 394 Documentary Film
• FMS 394 Mobile Media Entertainment: History, Theory & Practice

 


400 Level

• FMS 440 Los Angeles: Movies and Culture (HU, C, G, H)
• FMS 441 Global Cinema (HU, G)
• FMS 461 Film Theory and Criticism (HU)
• FMS 464 Latina/o Literature
• FMS/REL 486 Holocaust on Film
• FMS/ARS 494 South Asian Cinema
• FMS 494 Experimental Narrative
• FMS 494 Artists on Film
• FMS 494 Ethnographic Film
• FMS 494 Italian Cinema
• FMS 494 Studies in German Film
• FMS 494 Latin American Documentary Film
• FMS 494 Brazilian Film