24-2500 Cinema Studies I

Course is an intermediate level writing- and-research-intensive study of film aesthetics and theory. Students are taught how to write about film using four classical approaches in cinema studies: aesthetic and semiotic analysis, authorship, reception theory, and genre and ideological analysis. In order to focus more on writing and course content, screenings will be limited to a few films that have been selected because of their potential to be viewed from different perspectives. The screenings may change at the discretion of the instructor but the nature and number of the assignments will remain the same for each offering of the course.

3 Credits