Archaeology of Media

History of moving image technologies. Examination of relationship between technological evolution and forms of moving image expression. Lectures combined with extensive presentations of full range of analog, video, and digital image types to train students to develop discerning eye required for professionals working in 21st-century moving image archive. In addition to study of specific technical developments such as new gauges, formats, color processes, aspect ratios, films stocks, and projection systems, exploration of larger economic and industrial forces behind them. Study of aesthetic consequences of specific production and exhibition innovations by examining different types of images, genres, and narratives that accompany and influence passage of new technologies.