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FILM 381 Audience Reception Units: 3.00
This course examines the changing role of audience reception in live performance and media-based work. Students will explore theories and engage methods that explore how meaning is made from the vast range of digital media and live events that constitute the contemporary experience of spectatorship.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (FILM 236/3.0 or FILM 240/3.0 or FILM 260/3.0).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and deconstruct the ways in which spectatorship is shaped by the material conditions of production and reception as well as the intersections of gender, race, class, and ability.
- Implement methods of analysis learned through scholarly readings and critical and creative responses.
- Participate in critical debates about how audiences gaze, witness, consume, and participate in live and mediated events.
- Understand methods and modes of spectatorship.