FITV Futures is an online initiative that seeks to build a collection of curricular resources that addresses diversity and anti-racism in media culture across four categories: film, television, video art, and ephemera. The initiative was developed, and is maintained by, faculty in the Film and Television major in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.
The website brings media objects dedicated to issues of identity and difference from margin to center for the purposes of teaching about race in film and television courses. It offers a way for students to curate and contextualize a variety of creative texts informed by film and television studies, Black studies, Ethnic Studies, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, feminist critique, and more. FITV Futures will allow students to engage and analyze both mainstream and alternative media objects. Overall, the website will encourage students to work with faculty to think reflexively about the project of archiving and celebrating race in media culture.
FITV Futures is designed by Catherine Katsafouros and made possible by the Teaching Race Across the Curriculum (TRAC) Institutional Change Grant.
