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Apr 18, 2024
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ENGH 221 - Film History and Theory4 credits
How did film emerge as one of the most powerful means of communication and artistic expression in the modern era? To what extent have film directors from Fritz Lang to Yasujiro Ozu, cinematic movements from Neorealism to Third Cinema, and film industries from Hollywood to Bollywood, shaped cultures of film production and reception globally? What is film’s relationship to other media and how do we understand its status in the contemporary, digital era? This course will engage with such questions as it introduces students to the history of film form. Each week, we will analyze and learn to historically situate one or two feature-length films. In conjunction with learning methods of historical analysis, students will also be exposed to philosophical and theoretical perspectives (including formalist, psychoanalytical, feminist, postcolonial, etc.) that have emerged over the years and led to the consolidation of a vocabulary for film studies. By the end of class, students will have learned the skills and language needed to develop a historically sensitive and theoretically nuanced interpretation of cinematic works. Same as FILM 201 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities
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