Welcome to the course blog for An Introduction to Film and Media Studies in the Department of Theater, Dance and Film at Franklin & Marshall College. You can download a pdf of the syllabus for the course here.
Blogs posted to this site are for the purpose of fostering classroom discussion. Frame grabs and film clips posted here are “fair use” according to the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video published by the Center for Social Media at American University.
Useful (and free) imaging resources for bloggers include Jing (for grabbing and labeling images and stills), Handbrake (for grabbing DVD clips), and MPEG Streamclip (for editing clips).