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| FMA 3871 - Film Theory |
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This course introduces key ideas and debates in film theory. Covering work from classical film theory through the 1970s Screen theory to contemporary approaches, the course asks how best to understand film as an art form and social document. It will interrogate the nature of cinema as a medium and the direction of film in a digital age. Key ideas to include film aesthetics, signification, textuality, ideology, narration, political modernism, and feminist and postcolonial critique. Film screenings will illuminate concepts in the readings. Credit Hours: 4.000 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture and Lab Division: Undergraduate Department: CA:Film & Media Arts |
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