01:175:425Senior Seminar in Cinema Studies (3) One or more topics selected for their relevance to the
interdisciplinary study of film. Emphasis on advanced problems and
issues together with methodology and theory. Extended research paper
required on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor.
Prerequisite: Permission of adviser. Also open to students not pursuing the minor. |
01:354:201Introduction to Film (3)Film study, with emphasis on basic concepts of film analysis
(narrative, editing, mise-en-scéne, sound) and the historical
development of cinema as an institution. |
01:354:202Introduction to Film (3)Film
study, with emphasis on commercial cinema as an institution (genres,
directors, stars) and on nonnarrative types of film (documentary,
experimental). |
01:354:210Close Reading of Cinema (3)Formal analyses of six or seven individual films;
emphasis on visual track, sound track, and scenario-narrative
construction. |
01:354:420Seminar: Film Theory (3)Major developments in film theory from the silent era to
the present; writings on film by Eisenstein, Kracauer, Bazin, Metz,
Barthes, and others; practice in different methods to analyze films. |
