Primary focus is on the historical development of the medium in the United States, though topics covering some international works are included. An analytical approach to major subject areas is taken. Students purchase texts. The two semesters are sequential and should be taken in order. Students purchase texts.
Students purchase texts.
Contemporary Theory and Analysis of Cinema An intensive examination of recent theoretical approaches to the cinema, including theories of cinematic language, the cinematic apparatus, spectatorship, gender and sexuality, and politics and ideology critique. Background reading in the intellectual traditions that inform contemporary theory may also be assigned. Films related to the issues under study are screened. Selected readings in the critical theory and aesthetics of photography. Students purchase texts or Xerox packs.