Louis Giannetti, Understanding Movies Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate E. M . The course hopes to develop in the student a more thorough understanding of the ways that motion pictures work.
Movies have their own language, just as theater and poetry and fiction do.
We often take for granted techniques that really are the result of a long course of development. The way we watch movies is vastly different from the ways that viewers watched films formerly. What was convention for viewers fifty years ago and seems strange or funny to us now merely reflects the way that people fifty years from now will view our movies today. This doesn t mean, of course, that great movies, like great books, are not timeless. Watching the films in the Cinema Arts Program will allow us to see non-mainstream films on the large screen.