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GMDS 13000 - Introduction to Film Studies

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES This course is an introduction to film analysis that examines critical approaches to authorship, genre, presentation, and narrative. The main objective will be to help students develop the analytic tools necessary for understanding how meaning is constructed in narrative cinema. Students will become literate in the language of cinema and learn basic film concepts, techniques, and terminology in an effort to appreciate films more completely. The course examines how films are shot, tell stories, develop characters and depict physical reality through the combined, constructed medium of sound and image. Introduction to Film Studies is designed for students who enjoy movies but may lack the experience to make viable interpretive arguments about them. We will also pay close attention to multiple ways in which digital technologies have altered the construction of narrative in Hollywood and other national cinemas.