ENGL - 222. Reading Film

3 credit(s)
This course examines film as a textual form and attends to the formal and political dynamics of the history of film. By focusing on a director or a theme, students will learn how to analyze film and how to formulate arguments about film informed by cultural studies and film theory. The course will mostly be devoted to how we understand the textual elements of cinema: narrative, symbolism, characterization, and plot. However, it will also examine how that content is reflected in the technical formal elements of cinema: cinematography, mise en scene, editing, and sound.

Attribute: (ATTR: ARTS, FILM, ENLR, LTTP)