Film Studies 290MD - Film Theory: Cinema/The City
Spring
2015
01
4.00
Robin Blaetz
TTH 02:40PM-03:55PM;M 07:00PM-09:00PM
Mount Holyoke College
91082
Art 219;Art 219
rblaetz@mtholyoke.edu
This introductory course offers a survey of major directions in film theory, written by those writers and artists interested in ascertaining the medium's basic nature, its proper form, and its function as an art form and cultural force. Through engaging with theoretical texts and films, the course will examine the contributions to film theory of writers such as: Hugo Münsterberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Germaine Dulac, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, Walter Benjamin, André Bazin, Maya Deren, Stanley Cavell, Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, Laura Mulvey, bell hooks, Gilles Deleuze, Lev Manovich, and others, in the realms of Formalism, Realism, Auteurism, Semiotics, Feminism, and Critical Race Theory.
Prereq: Take Film Studies 201, 202, or 203.
2 meetings (75 minutes), 1 screening (1.5 hours)