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Comparative Media Studies

Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
Generoso Fierro
Mon Jan 16, 06-07:00pm, 50-030, WMBR, Basement of Walker

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2006
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event

Checking levels, making a segue, cueing vinyl (vinyl-what's that?)

Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show. Then, learn some history of WMBR (the first punk rock radio show in the USA), have a tour of the station and obtain membership information.

Freshly baked cookies and milk will be provided because Andy would've wanted it that way.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 13-2090, x3-5965, generoso@mit.edu
Cosponsor: WMBR Radio

Noir: The Shorthand Guide....
William Uricchio
Thu Feb 2, 06-09:00pm, 2-105

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Noir ... Hollywood's response to the breakdown and reworking of longstanding representational codes appeared with the use of anti-heros, inverted narrative structure, gritty urban realism, and stories set at night. This departure from normative cultural practice largely coincided with related developments in music (bebop), painting (abstract expressionism), and other expressive forms. This session will briefly look at Film Noir's roots in German Romanticism and Expressionism, its relationships with contemporary arts, and its successors in contemporary film culture. This heavily illustrated session will offer a primer to one of the most important moments in America's film history.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu

Storytelling and Games in the Digital Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, Sande Scoredos and Thomas Hershey, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Mon Jan 23 thru Fri Jan 27, 10am-05:00pm

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2006
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None

Student teams develop story concepts for various media, including motion picture visual effects and computer games. Sponsored by MIT Comparative Media Studies (CMS) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI), this non-technical activity focuses on the theoretical, historical, cultural, social, and aesthetic elements of interactive narrative and game structures. Morning lectures explore linear and non-linear storytelling across media, audio-visual elements, game theory, and techniques to increase the depth of interactive console games and enhance storytelling. Afternoons run as workshops where participants collaborate in teams to design interactive story scenarios to be presented during a final session on Friday afternoon.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu

The 16th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Mon Jan 23, 07-10:00pm, 4-237

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu

Theory of Violence: Reservoir Dogs
Joern Ahrens
Tue Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 02-05:00pm, 1-135

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

A look at Quentin Taratino's Reservoir Dogs and its relation to contemporary theory in general and to a particular theories of violence. Class will be taught by senior lecturer Joern Ahrens who previously taught this class at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038


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