You will be encouraged to watch films actively, by searching for the possible meanings of individual shots, sequences, and narrative structures. As a form of social communication, they make sense in a broader social, historical context. They also make sense of this context for their audiences.
Analysis articulates how films make sense, and what sense they make.
Although this course focuses largely on narrative cinema, we will explore experimental and documentary forms as well, in the interests of analysing the textual strategies and the films' relationship to the social context in which they are produced and consumed. You must be registered in a tutorial. There are also sample sequence analyses on reserve. Access to a television and VCR is necessary to complete the assignments in the second term. Let's start with the difference between a review and criticism.