Film Studies (FILM)

FILM 101 | INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA

Units: 3 Repeatability: No

Core Attributes: Artistic Inquiry area

This course is an introduction to film form and the historical, industrial, and cultural contexts that make form significant for analysis. This class aims to equip students to look purposefully, critically and contextually at the moving image, mindful of the ways that meaning is produced and received.

FILM 301 | INTRODUCTION TO FILM THEORY

Units: 3 Repeatability: No

Prerequisites: FILM 101 or ARTH 144

A survey of the major concepts of film theory, this course emphasizes the ways that film engages the viewer through form, social meaning and the particularities of the brain and bodily senses. Screenings, lectures and texts examine the aesthetic, social, philosophical and psychological aspects of the cinematic medium, and include examples reflecting a transnational approach.