Listed in: English, as ENGL-95 | Film and Media Studies, as FAMS-70
Amelie E. Hastie (Section 03)
(Offered as ENGL 95-03 and FAMS 70.) As an upper-division seminar in film theory, this course will offer an in-depth examination of historically significant writings that analyze film form and its social functions and effects. Our particular focus will be on the production of film theory in a collective setting: the film/media journal. Thus the course will be organized by five units, each centering on a particular journal in generally chronological order: Close Up, Cahiers du Cinéma, Film Culture, Screen, and Camera Obscura. Through this structure, we will consider how ideas have developed and transformed, often in dialogue with one another and on an international stage. Our purpose will be threefold: to understand the context for the production and development of film theories; to comprehend a wide range of changing theoretical notions and methodologies; and to create our own dialogue with these works, considering especially their impact on their own contemporaneous film viewers and on viewing positions today. One three-hour class meeting and one film screening per week.
Prior coursework in Film and Media Studies is strongly recommended. Limited to 15 students. Fall semester. Professor Hastie.
Section 03
W 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM JOCH 21