Film and the Moving Image
Course Code
CMST 14400 91
Course Description
This course seeks to develop skills in perception, comprehension, and interpretation when dealing with film and other moving image media. It encourages the close analysis of audiovisual forms, their materials and formal attributes, and explores the range of questions and methods appropriate to the explication of a given film or moving image text. It also examines the intellectual structures basic to the systematic study and understanding of moving images. Most importantly, the course aims to foster in students the ability to translate this understanding into verbal expression, both oral and written.
Texts and films are drawn from the history of narrative, experimental, animated, and non-fiction cinema.
Course Criteria
Successful completion of this course satisfies the general education requirement in the Arts Core.
This course is primarily comprised of undergraduate students. A select number of places are reserved for advanced high school students.
The cost of this course for pre-college students is $4,790
Instructor(s)
Shubham Shivang