CMJ 245 - Film Criticism and Theory

Offers a mass communication/media studies overview of contemporary film. Students will develop skills in the analysis of film form and content so that they will achieve a high degree of proficiency in the use of film studies vocabulary. After developing an understanding of how the different elements of film work to construct meaning within (as well as outside of) film, the course will survey major theories and methodologies of film studies. Likewise, participants will receive an overview of film history and will develop familiarity with major historical and technological development of film. Participants will learn to think critically about the media industry and to evaluate film as art form, individual psychological experience, technology, social text, and commodity. (This course is identical to NMD 245.)

Credits: 3