- Convey a critical vocabulary for examining the cinema as an art form, an industry, and a system of culturally meaningful representation.
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2023-2024
ENG 303 - Introduction to Film
Course Description and Information
Full course for one semester. This course focuses on questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, cinematography, framing, mise-en-scène, sound) and introduces students to concepts in film history and theory (auteurism, spectatorship, the star system, ideology, genre). We will pay particular attention to principles of film narration and film form that are instrumental across the study of literature: plot vs. story, dramatic development, temporal strategies, character development, point of view, symbolism, reality vs. illusion, visual metaphor, and so forth.
Grade Basis: Audit, Letter Grade
Credit Hours: 4
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 3