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MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to Media Studies
- Instructor
- Dr. Andrea Walsh
- Term
- Fall 2003
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 6 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 21L.015 · Fall 2005 · Study here
- 21L.015 · Fall 2003 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.015 Introduction to Media Studies, Fall 2003, Dr. Andrea Walsh — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture 2: Media Studies: An Interdisciplinary Field Technology and Meaning: Concepts of “High” and “Low” Culture
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Lecture 3: Lab/Discussion Section: Show and Tell (Media Artifacts) - See Handout Note: Sections meet in extended session for 1.5 hours
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Lecture 4: Approaches to Studying Media: The Concept of Commodity - The Frankfurt School and the Birmingham School Questions of Ownership and Control of Media The Challenge of Cultural Pluralism
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Lecture 5: Applying the Frameworks: Advertising
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Lecture 6: Screening/Discussion Section: The Power of Advertising Documentary Film Screening
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Lecture 7: Key Media Debates: Influence, Representation, Control Guest Speaker: Prof. Mark Lloyd
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Lecture 8: Comparing Oral and Print Cultures: Different Forms of Storytelling
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Lecture 9: Written Media: The Press: Technology, Power and Influence
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Lecture 12: Screening/Discussion Section: The Rise of Modern Mass Media: Early Silent Film in the U.S.
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Lecture 13: The Documentary Mode: Photography and Film Media and Social Reform
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Lecture 14: The Star System: Origins in the Silent Era
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Lecture 15: Screen Culture: Movies and Music
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Lecture 16: Screening/Discussion Section: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Piano Accompaniment and Discussion: Prof. Martin Marks)
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Lecture 17: Sound Genres And Audiences: Storytelling Across Media: Melodrama and Horror
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Lecture 18: The Social Problem Movie: Storytelling Across Media
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Lecture 19: Filmic and Ethnic Images
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Lecture 20: Storytelling Across Media: Film and Colonialism
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Lecture 21: Broadcasting: Radio and Television: The Public Interest, Public Entertainment and the Commercial Imperative
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Lecture 22: TV as Consensus Narrative: Critiques of TV
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Lecture 33: Last Day of Class
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