DGMD.1050 Introduction to Film Studies

Id: 042316 Credits: 3-3

Description

This course is an introduction to academic film studies. It aims to introduce students to the basic vocabularies, methods, and debates in scholarly writing about narrative cinema. Students will become conversant with specific elements and operations of the cinematic apparatus (e.g. camera, editing, soundtrack) and its production of meanings. We will also examine the structural and ideological attributes of cinema, concentrating on the dominant narrative model developed in the Hollywood studio system and the alternatives and challenges it provoked. Finally, we will look at the multiple ways in which digital technologies have altered the construction of narratives in Hollywood and other national cinemas.

Prerequisites

Pre-Req: ENGL.1020 College Writing II.

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