emerging scholarship: reimagining the cinematic arts at usc

Reinventing Cinematic Arts

Media Arts + Practice Orientation8.22.14

Catherine Grant, Christian Keathley, Drew Morton (2014)

“first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies”

Bordwell and Thompson, Film Art (1977) 1st edition

“first introductory film textbook” to include frame enlargements

The Voyager Company (1984-97)

“a film school in a box”

The Criterion Collection

Institute for the Future of the Book Sophie (2000 - 2010)

Night Kitchen | TK31997-2000

Bob Stein

Marsha Kinder, Blood Cinema (1993)

first cinema studies book to include media supplement (CD ROM)

Labyrinth | Yuri Tsivian Immaterial Bodies (1999)

First Labyrinth CD ROM

Marsha Kinder | Labyrinth Research Initiative on Interactive Narrative

iMAP incubatorKristy Kang, Rosemary Comella, Juri Hwang

+Steve Anderson, Andreas Kratky

Interactive Frictions | 1999

Transmedia Frictions | 2014

Race in Digital Space | 2000

Scott Fisher, et al | Zemeckis Media Lab | 2003-2010

experimental pedagogical spaces: backchannel; Google-jockey

Institute for Multimedia Literacy | 1997

integration of technology-enhanced research and pedagogy

Tara McPherson, Steve Anderson | Vectors Journal | 2003

infrastructure for producing and validating emerging modes of scholarship

Erik Loyer | Vector Space

generative editorial statement

experiments with design, affect, interface, publishing models

Vectors dynamic indexing

transition from design orientation to information architecture

ANVC | Scalar | 2009

lowering technological barriers to electronic authoring

Critical Commons | 2008

lowering legal barriers to electronic authoring

Scalar Difference Analyzer Electronic journals

Anne Friedberg + Erik Loyer | Virtual Window Interactive | 2007

iMAP | 2007

Dissertation Projects

A dissertation is an original contribution to current knowledge in the field and a demonstration that the Ph.D. candidate has achieved sufficient mastery in the field to pursue independent research and scholarship. A dissertation represents the individual candidate's research, writing and creative practice. Dissertation projects must achieve the highest levels of scholarly rigor and creative accomplishment within a context of critical inquiry.

The precise form of the dissertation project will be determined in consultation with each student's Dissertation Committee and Chair. In keeping with the hybrid theory-practice commitment of the Media Arts and Practice program, formal parameters for the project should be defined according to the content of the student's research and the expressive needs of the project. The dissertation project may be accompanied by an associated text document or, depending on the content of the project and, with the approval of the Dissertation Committee Chair, all textual content may be fully integrated into the project.

Dissertation projects must be accompanied by thorough written documentation describing the design processes and technologies, as well as the historical and theoretical foundations of the project. A justification of the project's treatment of text and other media content should be included in the project documentation. The purpose of the documentation is not to become a surrogate for the dissertation project itself, but is consistent with the need to represent and disseminate the substance of a dissertation project effectively in ways that are supplementary to its original form. In all cases, the dissertation project must constitute an original contribution to the field of study and emerging modes of scholarly expression.