Film Aesthetics

Catalog description

This course is an advanced analysis/critical thinking class that requires extensive reading and writing. Students should expect to complete between 18-60 pages of revised writing during the semester. Class participation and in-class exercises stress close analysis of film texts; students must also view several films on their own time, outside of class. Students should have a working familiarity with technical aspects of video and film production. Students study Classical Hollywood narrative films, foreign films, art cinema, and independent films as a means of examining stylistic and technical choices, and their impact on the subject, themes, characters, and components of film and video.