Film and the Moving Image

Course is Full

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

Instructor(s)

Shubham Shivang

This course is full. UChicago students can request to be added on a waitlist. Visiting students are strongly invited to choose another course and email summersession@uchicago.edu to inquire about the waitlist status.