Analyzing Popular Cinema Through Communication Theory

Students from COMM 210: Communication Theory use course material to analyze movies such as Big Fish, Bridesmaids, The Internship and Silver Linings Playbook. Each panelist will use a clip from each film, along with... [ view full abstract ]

Students from COMM 210: Communication Theory use course material to analyze movies such as Big Fish, Bridesmaids, The Internship and Silver Linings Playbook. Each panelist will use a clip from each film, along with communication theory analysis to take a deeper look at the communication messages within each movie. A variety of communication theories are addressed by the panelists, including coordinated management of meaning theory, Fisher’s narrative paradigm (rhetoric), social penetration theory, uncertainty reduction theory and relational dialectics.