CINE 101 - Form, Style and Meaning in Cinema

Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU

This course considers the cinema as a particular media form and explores issues and methods in cinema studies. The class focuses on questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scene) and introduces students to concepts in film history and theory (industry, auteurism, spectatorship, the star system, ideology, genre). Students develop a basic critical vocabulary for examining the cinema as an art form, an industry, and a system of culturally meaningful representation. Enrollment Limit: 45.
Instructor: B. Doan

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