Course Description:
The techniques of filmic expression are examined through a focused, detailed analysis of cinematography, editing, lighting, mise-en-scène, and soundtrack in celebrated cinematic works from around the world. Course content is organized around the establishment or subversion of narrative, generic, and stylistic conventions through the works of one director, a particular genre, or a film movement.
Course Goals/Student Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the semester, students will:
- Be comfortable utilizing the technical and stylistic elements of film expression.
- Have analyzed a scene in aural and written form.
- Know how to integrate film analysis into an argument.
- Situate a film in its social and political context.
- Articulate how films generate meaning through their relationship to other films or works of art.
The techniques of filmic expression are examined through a focused, detailed analysis of cinematography, editing, lighting, mise-en-scène, and soundtrack in celebrated cinematic works from around the world. Course content is organized around the establishment or subversion of narrative, generic, and stylistic conventions through the works of one director, a particular genre, or a film movement.
Course Goals/Student Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the semester, students will:
- Be comfortable utilizing the technical and stylistic elements of film expression.
- Have analyzed a scene in aural and written form.
- Know how to integrate film analysis into an argument.
- Situate a film in its social and political context.
- Articulate how films generate meaning through their relationship to other films or works of art.
- Teacher: Joel Neville Anderson