This course is designed to give you expertise in audio-visual/narrative analysis and introduce you to key methods in the field of cinema studies. You will learn terminology for film’s stylistic and narrative elements, how to identify those elements, and how to analyze the ways that they can make mean...
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...
I was born in Washington, D.C.; grew up in Bethesda, Maryland; vacationed with my family on the Delaware coast; and went to college in Tidewater Virginia. Perhaps it is for that reason that my initial scholarly interest in literature and culture of the American South changed over time into a more sp...
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...
Mason’s English degree is not a conventional one. As an English major, you can study the poetry of Milton and learn to write digital poetry. You can specialize in Renaissance literature or modern world literature. You can take courses on the folklore of Mexico or the films of Bollywood. You can learn...
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...
