Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2014-2015
FILM 281 - THE BEGINNINGS OF CINEMA
Long Title: THE BEGINNINGS OF CINEMA
Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This class studies the emergence of cinema in the context of cultural developments at the turn of the 20th century. Early films will be examined together with such contemporaneous issues as technologies of vision, modern mass culture, urban expansion and consumerism. Cross-list: HART 281.