24-3502 Topics in Cinema: Visual Strategy

Topics in Cinema Visual Strategies: Each semester, this course will concentrate on a different visual strategy. For example, a course can be constructed to study one of the following topics:1) Examine the consistent visual style and grammar of an individual filmmaker throughout their career (i.e., Kubrick, Ophuls, Campion, etc.);2) Examine the visual strategies and devices of a specific movement in film (i.e., noir, expressionism, studio, etc.);3) Examine the visual strategy of a single film from multiple theoretical and interpretive perspectives (Citizen Kane, La Ronde, Don’t Look Now, etc.), or;4) Examine a specific visual device and the way it is applied by different filmmakers for different effects (i.e., long takes, color palettes, widescreen, etc.)

3 Credits