Graduate Course in Screen Culture - 10 Quotes

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant, even me”  Archibald Leach



I love this quote from Cary Grant, whose real name was Archibald Alexander Leach.  It may be apocryphal (IMDb reports it slightly differently) but even if it is, it says so much about the  movies and how they create us.

The AFTRS Graduate Certificate in Screen Culture offers students the opportunity to discover and engage with the underlying ideas that shape screen arts and culture.  It covers key knowledge about the history and contemporary landscape of screen arts that an expert in screen culture needs in order to make informed decisions as a curator, festival director, administrator, or project officer, to write authoritatively as a critic, commentator, distributor or marketer, or to make richer work as a practitioner. Over the course of one-year (part time) students learn about the agencies and structures that make key decisions about our screen culture, they collaboratively create a lively screen culture destination online, and pursue an idea of their own in a screen culture project, while they discover and debate the ideas underlying screen arts concepts, stories, artistry, genres, cinematics and forms of the past, present and future.  Through discussions, screenings, in-class exercises, guest presentations and seminars students will develop fluency with the ideas that determined our past and present and the skills to shape the ideas that will determine our future.

Learn more here and Apply for the AFTRS 2012 Grad Cert in Screen Culture.