Film & Media Studies 210 - Coming to Terms: Cinema
Fall
2016
01
4.00
Joshua Guilford
TTH 11:30AM-12:50PM; M 07:00PM-10:00PM
Amherst College
FAMS-210-01-1617F
CHAP 201
jguilford@amherst.edu
ENGL-280-01,FAMS-210-01
(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.