MAS American Media and Popular Culture

The MAS degree offered by the Film and Media Studies faculty at ASU features innovative approaches to the study of film, television, new media, and screenwriting, using historic methods, critical theory, and creative expression as modes of analysis.While the media arts have traditionally been studied as independent disciplines, their program provides a more comprehensive approach that views them as convergent. They therefore recognize the importance of understanding the history of film as an art form, for instance, but also the need to view it in relation to television and digital media. They are committed to integrating the study of such media convergence into their curriculum, both as units within courses and through the design of new courses entirely devoted to that phenomenon.