Film Media Theater 230VC - Intermediate Courses in History and Theory: 'Videographic Criticism: Feeling and Thinking through the Timeline'

Videographic Criticism

Spring
2026
01
4.00
Celia Sainz

MW 11:30AM-12:45PM

Mount Holyoke College
130247
Rooke Theatre 203B
csainz@mtholyoke.edu
The course will focus on developing both analytical, technical and creative skills through the practice of videographic criticism. This form of audiovisual scholarship has emerged as a new mode of film research, circulating across multiple platforms such as YouTube and peer-reviewed online journals such as [In]Transition. Videographic criticism not only offers the opportunity to write about cinema, but also to write with cinema itself-using the images and sounds of film as critical tools. It opens up new expressive possibilities and allows learners to engage in material thinking, or the practice of thinking and feeling through the timeline.

Prereq: FMT-102.

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