FILM - 200. Introduction to Film Studies

3 credit(s)
This course will introduce the formal and narrative study of film within Western heritage. We will focus on film history, the technology of film production, and the methodology of film studies as an academic discipline. Through screenings, readings, discussion, and writing, students will develop a formal and aesthetic appreciation of film and acquire a general awareness of film history and its key movements from its beginnings as a black and white silent art form to the contemporary global digital age. We will pay particular attention to the cultural, political, and economic contexts from which it emerges, and how films address questions of humanistic and/or religious concerns rooted in the Franciscan Tradition. This course is a requirement of the Film Studies Minor and it is highly recommended, but not required, as a prerequisite for other Film Minor courses.

Attribute: (ATTR: ARTS, FILM, CFH)