Film and Media Studies 350 - QUESTIONS: VISUAL CULTURE

Spring
2018
01
4.00
Alexandra Keller
Th 01:00-04:50
Smith College
30693-S18
HILLYR GRAHAM
akeller@smith.edu
Topics course.: This class investigates cinema and its relationship to other 20th and 21st century art, especially visual culture. Working with the premise that film has been the most influential, powerful and central creative medium of the age, the course examines how film has critiqued, defined, influenced, interacted with and been defined and influenced by other media; how film has moved from a marginal to a mainstream art form while maintaining a very active avant-garde practice; and how cinema has consistently and trans-historically grappled with certain fundamental issues and themes. Prerequisite: FMS 150 and permission of instructor.
Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores
Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.