Small Screens

While television is often called “the small screen,” digital distribution finds TV, film, video, and games coexisting on the small screens of mobile devices, and the big, HD screens of home entertainment systems. Yet smallness persists in aesthetic modes of the everyday, toy, mobile, cute, viral, indie, trashy, and pirated. Small Screens ( MCM 1506L ) is an advanced seminar exploring the theory and aesthetics of the small. It considers film, video, television, video games, and digital media within global distribution networks, and the changing meaning of media reception in the home.