- Film Analysis

Catalog description

This course helps students develop an understanding of film as a complex cultural medium through the discussion of key analytical and critical approaches. Pursuing detailed study of major film theories and their relationship to critical practice, students will investigate the "classic" period of film criticism, cinema's relationship to other art forms (particularly writing and photography), its relationship to popular culture, modernism, and postmodernism, and its relationship to both science and aesthetics. Students must attend scheduled screening sessions outside of weekly class hours.