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Course is a writing-and-research-intensive introduction to cinema studies. Students are taught how to write about cinema and media using different approaches including: formal analysis, ideological analysis, and historical research. In order to focus more on writing and course content, screenings will be limited. 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.