This course provides an overview of critical approaches to thinking about film as a technology, industry, cultural text, and art form. Through lectures, readings, screenings, and discussions, students will learn the key elements of film form—mise-en-scène, editing, camerawork, cinematography, sound, and story structure—and the various ways these elements have been employed by filmmakers in the US and abroad. We’ll look at film periods and movements, such as Classical Hollywood Cinema, Italian Neo-realism, The French New Wave, and so on.
- Teacher: Julie Sexeny