Media and Screen Studies
MSCR 3600: Film Theory
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Explores the movement from modernist concern with the art object to postmodern concerns with subjectivity and spectatorship, race, and gender.
- Requires a paper using formalist analysis and later revision using cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, philosophy of perception, race studies.
- Also offers students an opportunity to learn research methods in cinema studies and perform a metacritical review of their own work and to present their findings from film journals, databases, Web sites, blogs.
- Presents the relation of perception to reality; levels of representational realness; reception theory; digitalization in its relation to movement and meaning.
- Seeks to enable students to recognize structures and problems for analysis in a film and to apply appropriate theoretical models to analyze these structures.
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