Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: NONFICTION FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Introduction to the history and aesthetics of nonfiction film as both a social artifact and as a work of art. Includes discussions of actualities, the city film, the social documentary, surrealist cinema, propaganda, ethnography, the essay film, and the contemporary nonfiction film from around the world. Cross-listed with FILM 284.