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Instructor: Dr. Burcu S. BakiogluMeeting Time: TR 2:30PM-3:45PM
Meeting Place: Swain East room 105
Office Hours: TR 4:00PM- 5:00PM and by appointment
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Traditionally, genres have been defined as groups of texts that have specific features, specific purposes, and inspire (or create) certain types of action. However, as we will see throughout the semester, it has become difficult to define what a genre is or even be able to rigidly assign works as “belonging” to a particular genre. Decidedly, as a result of emerging media (such as mobile technologies, social media, Internet, virtual worlds, and gaming) alternative forms of works are emerging, and with it, the familiar categories of analysis are undergoing a dramatic transformation. While this course primarily assumes the task of teasing out the particular sets of “rules” or expectations of form, presentation, or content attached to genres, it ultimately explores how these rules are negotiated as a result of new media. Such negotiations bring about alternative forms of works and a renewed understanding of media production processes. Accordingly, the course will look at some of the long-standing genres such as Film Noir and Horror as well as works such as Lost, The Blair Witch, Lonelygirl15, The Guild, and virtual worlds to examine the ways in which these works re-contextualize the traditional categories that have been assigned to media texts.