Regular assignments of short reviews ask students to develop their own style of interpretation. Class discussions and additional reading open out issues of theory of drama and history of theater as they arise. In addition to class meetings, students attend theatrical performances each Sunday afternoon or Tuesday evening throughout the term. Film Staff Film is a medium that combines a number of arts. It lies at the intersection of art and technology and of art and mass culture, and at the boundaries of the national and the global.
Film is also a medium that coincides with and contributes to the invention of modern life.
We explore the expressive and representational achievements of cinema in the context of modernity and mass culture, providing students with the concepts to grasp the different ways in which films create meaning, achieve their emotional impact, and respond in complex ways to the historical contexts in which they are made.