Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Searchable Course Catalog

header image

FMMC0354A-S10

Film Theory

Film Theory
This course surveys the issues that have sparked the greatest curiosity among film scholars throughout cinema's first century, such as: What is the specificity of the film image? What constitutes cinema as an art? How is authorship in the cinema to be accounted for? Is the cinema a language, or does it depart significantly from linguistic coordinates? How does one begin to construct a history of the cinema? What constitutes valid or useful film research? Readings will include Epstein, Eisenstein, Bazin, Truffaut, Wollen, Mulvey, Benjamin, Kracauer, and others. (Formerly FMMC 0344) (FMMC 0101 or FMMC 0102 or FMMC 0131 or FMMC 0231 or instructor approval) 3 hrs. lect./3 hrs. screen.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22597
Subject Code:
FMMC
Course Number:
0354
Section Identifier:
A

Course

FMMC 0354

All Sections in Spring 2010

Spring 2010

FMMC0354A-S10 Lecture (Keathley)