Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY ***** This course introduces the student to approaches to understanding and interpreting film as film. It traces the attempts to grasp the new medium in theoretical terms from its origins to the present day. Topics include: montage, mis-en-scene, the gaze, history, psychoanalysis, and feminism. ***** Also offered as ENGL 286. ***** Enrollment limited to 20.