Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: REPRESENTATIONS OF MAGIC AND SPIRITUALITY IN MODERNIST CINEMA

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course examines representations of magical practices and spiritual phenomena in modernist cinema. Focusing primarily on classic films, we will explore the technical symbolic systems through which the cinematic medium represents such phenomena as miracles, angelic intervention, the afterlife, witchcraft, time travel, and spirit possession rituals. Cross-list: RELI 107.