English 280 - Coming to Terms: Cinema

Fall
2015
01
4.00
Joshua Guilford
TTH 11:30AM-12:50PM; M 07:00PM-10:00PM
Amherst College
ENGL-280-01-1516F
FAYE 113; FAYE 117
jguilford@amherst.edu
FAMS-210-01,ENGL-280-01

(Offered as ENGL 280 and FAMS 210.)  An introduction to cinema studies through consideration of a few critical and descriptive terms, together with a selection of various films (classic and contemporary, foreign and American) for illustration and discussion.  The terms for discussion will include, among others:  mise-en-scène, montage, realism, visual pleasure, and the avant-garde.  Two class meetings and one screening per week.


Limited to 35 students.  Fall semester.  Visiting Professor Guilford.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.