For further work in Cinema and Media Studies, students are also encouraged to investigate other courses taught by the resource faculty.
Film screenings add three to four hours per week to class time for the majority of courses.
This course introduces basic concepts of film analysis, which are discussed through examples from different national cinemas, genres, and directorial oeuvres. Along with questions of film technique and style, we consider the notion of the cinema as an institution that comprises an industrial system of production, social and aesthetic norms and codes, and particular modes of reception. Films discussed include works by Hitchcock, Porter, Griffith, Eisenstein, Lang, Renoir, Sternberg, and Welles. J. Stewart . We will pay particular attention to the ways in which race complicates issues of production, representation and address between literary and cinematic institutions.