Ph.D. Emphasis Area in Film and Visual Culture
For doctoral candidates in the Department of English Graduate Program.
The Film and Visual Culture emphasis area encourages students to think about film and visual culture in its relationship to modern cultural politics and within the history of representational technologies and perceptual regimes. Animated by cross-disciplinary theoretical work and covering a range of media—including cinema and pre-cinematic visual technologies, photography, painting, architecture, graphic and digital media, and literature—research in this field foregrounds questions pertaining to vision, embodiment, and modern subjectivity; theories of realism and mimesis; politics and mass media; the visualization of space, time, and movement in literature and the other arts; and literary forms as they construct, anticipate, or respond to the cinematic registers of modern experience.
Graduate Courses in Film and Visual Culture
For information on courses in this emphasis area,
Contact:
Scott Juengel, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies in English: juengel@msu.edu
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