Research Capstone Course This course explores the near-ubiquitous presence of melodramatic form in modern culture. It will examine melodrama to open up critical questions about the inter-relationship of politics, aesthetics, social injustice, and the place of media in society. The course will draw o...
-Fulfills Mason Core Requirement for Arts, and for Global Contexts What is a screen? How do screens shape the visual landscape of everyday life? How are screens embedded in and positioned against various forms of popular culture and expressions of power? This course explores these questions while in...
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of English Matters, the English Department's twice-yearly newsmagazine. You can find the full issue here. In Spring 2023, Mason’s Film and Media Studies program was rebranded Screen Cultures, but more than a simple renaming, this shift recog...
The minor in Screen Cultures explores mass culture in its visual manifestations and helps students develop an informed awareness of culture and media, ideological tendencies, and effects on daily experience. Committed to interdisciplinary studies, the program addresses the increasing complexity and m...
Hatim El-Hibri is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on global and transnational media studies, visual culture studies, Lebanon and the Middle East, urban studies, television studies, and media theory and history. His first book, Visions of Bei...
Dr. Alexander Monea is an Assistant Professor serving jointly in George Mason's English Department and Cultural Studies Program. He researches the history and cultural impacts of computers and digital media. He is also an Ethics, Equity, and Trust Area Editor for Data & Policy. He received his Ph...
Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and B...
