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Bell, Christopher Edward

Associate Professor Adjunct

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  • MDST 4071 - Writing for Screens
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
    Students will be taught the fundamentals of screenwriting, but will also learn from peers. Students will workshop scenes, share, and discuss. Students will work scenes through description, dialogue, and action, combine those scenes into sequences, and those sequences into scripts. Students will learn how to create dramatic tension, how to write compelling dialogue, how to deal with character development. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Same as ENGL 4071.
  • MDST 4121 - Deconstructing Disney: Mediated American Mythology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
    Explores various Disney cultural products � some with which students will be very familiar, some students may have never seen � in order to discuss the cultural messaging The Walt Disney Company has presented over its long and illustrious history. Students will conduct analysis research in popular culture studies.
  • MDST 4331 - Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality in Popular Culture
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Studies the construction, interconnections, and replications of gender, race, class, and sexuality in popular culture and how these constructs become cultural norms and mores. Uses critical methods with a focus on producing responsible viewers and readers.
  • MDST 5071 - Screenwriting
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
    Students will learn the fundamentals of screenwriting, but will also learn from peers. Students will workshop scenes, share, and discuss. Students will work scenes through description, dialogue, and action, combine those scenes into sequences, and those sequences into scripts. Students will learn how to create dramatic tension, how to write compelling dialogue, how to deal with character development.