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Film Studies Courses

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DescriptionWhat is a blockbuster? What is a cult film? What is digital cinema? Discover the answers to these questions and others in a broad introduction to the study of cinema. Students will learn the basic vocabulary of film studies and gain an informed understanding of the different critical approaches to film analysis.
AntirequisitesFilm Studies 1020E.
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Weight1.0Lecture Hours5 hours including screening
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  • Section 570

DescriptionAddressing the ways the media create, shape and distort our perceptions and imaginings of crime. The cinema has long given moviegoers a rich vocabulary about lawbreaking and moral transgression. Television and new media will also be examined in terms their fictional and non-fictional negotiations of crime.
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Weight0.5Lecture Hours5 including screening
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  • Section 570

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= Offered | = Special Topic | = Seminar | = Selected
Offered during current academic year.

DescriptionWhat is a blockbuster? What is a cult film? What is digital cinema? Discover the answers to these questions and others in a broad introduction to the study of cinema. Students will learn the basic vocabulary of film studies and gain an informed understanding of the different critical approaches to film analysis.
AntirequisitesFilm Studies 1020E.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight1.0Lecture Hours5 hours including screening
Lab HoursTutorial Hours
Notes
Course Outlines:
  • Section 570

DescriptionAddressing the ways the media create, shape and distort our perceptions and imaginings of crime. The cinema has long given moviegoers a rich vocabulary about lawbreaking and moral transgression. Television and new media will also be examined in terms their fictional and non-fictional negotiations of crime.
Antirequisites
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Weight0.5Lecture Hours5 including screening
Lab HoursTutorial Hours
Notes
Course Outlines:
  • Section 570

DescriptionHistorically and critically, this course will survey significant film 'movements' within one or more national cinemas (e.g., France/Russia/Italy/Japan, etc.) and their sources or causes. The specific national cinema to be considered will change from year to year.
AntirequisitesFilm Studies 2243F/G and Film Studies 2244E (may be waived by permission of the Department).
PrerequisitesAt least 60% in Film Studies 1020E or Film Studies 1022, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.
Co-requisites
Weight0.5Lecture Hours
Lab HoursTutorial Hours
Notes1-3 hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours

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DescriptionThis course is rooted in an auteurist approach to the works of a few major directors, and will consider both the manner in which these directors' personalities are thematically and stylistically expressed in their films, and how their films represent major developments or movements in film aesthetics and history.
AntirequisitesThe former Film 159E and 259E.
PrerequisitesAt least 60% in Film Studies 1020E or Film Studies 1022, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.
Co-requisites
Weight0.5Lecture Hours
Lab HoursTutorial Hours
Notes1-3 hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours

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