We will engage with a constellation of films, TV shows, video art works, and social media content such as 

What have energy cultures been, and what might they look like? Examines cultural expressions and aesthetic formations across media forms, with an emphasis on electronic and digital media.

How do popular cultures encourage apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic thinking?  This course is a survef catastrophic imagining as they emerge in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

How can moving images represent capitalism? This course invites students to reflect on various aspects of capitalism as a system while posing the question of how to represent it. 

A survey of catastrophic imaginings as they emerge in the 20th and 21st centuries within film, television and online discourse.

This course pays homage to the late director through the critical lens of Auteur Cinema.

This course will engage and explore robotic and virtual servants and assistants in film, television, and commercial advertisements from the 20th and 21st centuries.