Film Theory

Catalog description

Prerequisite: LITT 121 or HONR 102 Corequisite: Nonw Restriction: None Description: Introduces major film theories, studied in relation to representative films. Details the complex relationship between film production and film theory, i.e., how theorists have attempted to explain what appears on the screen, its impact, and its relation to “reality,” and how filmmakers have responded to the works of theorists (with the two sometimes being the same). Deepens an understanding of film by focusing on how film is constructed through aesthetic and institutional processes.