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Film Studies

 

Film Studies courses examine the following aspects of film:

• Aesthetics
• History
• Theory
• Genre (film noir, horror, biopics, musicals)
• Directors (eg. Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood)
• Special Topics (such as Women and Film and African Americans and Film)

 

Film studies courses examine films the way that Literature courses study literature, considering: 

• how film uses a language of its own to create an experience for the spectator
• how to understand that experience in all its dimensions
• how film is influenced by culture, other arts, and the industries and personalities that produce it

Our track also offers a world film history sequence, a course on film and literature, and courses on decades and eras in American film history.  Graduate students may take courses for graduate credit, as well as develop Masters theses on film-related topics.

 

Students who wish to pursue their interest in film outside of class are encouraged to participate in the Film Studies Club.

 

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