Overview
Description
Historical and critical development of specific genres, styles and directors; investigating film as a developing art form and means of mass communication.
Requirements
Prerequisites
ART 253
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): ART 253.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- recognize and identify the differences between an “image” driven narrative and a”literature” [language, dialogue] driven narrative.
- understand and identify technical, mechanical and conceptual terms and ideas used in the cinema world [some of which may be unique to a specific film or genre].
- demonstrate familiarity with the “Business” of the Film “Industry” and the impact the collision between image, concept and bottom line play in what is, probably quite correctly termed: “The Film Industry.”
- discuss and demonstrate understanding of a form of “creativity” that depends upon a variety of disparate sources from which to construct something new and, in its way, totally different from anything which has preceded it.
- recognize and identify these disparate strands by relating them to cinema examples which have come before.
- apply analytical and critical thinking strategies and techniques to the screening of films toward understanding the various narrative strategies employed.
- produce a research paper of at least twenty-five hundred words covering an aspect of the course material presented, to be decided upon in consultation with and with the approval of the instructor.