FILM 3500 - Adv Film Theory & Criticism

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Weber State University

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This course aims to help the student view, discuss, and write about films with greater acuity, nuance, and depth. We will investigate the nature of film as an art form, explore the role of the critic in the film industry and society at large, and apply a variety of theoretical frameworks and cultural studies methodologies to our discussion of film. In addition to engaging the work of popular critics, we will navigate various theoretical approaches to film including the Bakhtin and Frankfurt schools, auteur theory, poststructuralism, gender studies, semiotics, textual analysis, postcolonial and digital theories to grapple with cinematic transformations across the 20th and 21st centuries. By the end of the course students will be able to address and historically contextualize the writings of media theorists and critics from diverse schools of thought; place theorists' ideas in dynamic conversation with class screenings; apply the concepts and ideological interventions of a school of theorists or critics to the unique analysis of a specific film or media text.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.weber.edu

Phone Number:

(801) 626-6000

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

General Education

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