6 Credits| Dr. Ian Fong<\/p>\n
This course examines key ways of analyzing film art and culture. How films create meaning and how viewers make sense of the cinema frame this exploration of film as visual language and cultural text in the context of global cultures. The course places emphasis on learning basic film terminology and the rudiments of film form.\u00a0 Critical discourses are also introduced to help students understand cultural issues such as identity, gender, history, and globalization. The student becomes acquainted with classical Hollywood cinema, other national cinemas, transnational cinemas, counter-cinemas, as well as hybrid, experimental and documentary film modes.\u00a0 At the conclusion of the course, the student should be able to look at motion pictures critically, understand films as formal constructs, and place films within broader institutional, economic, ideological, and cultural contexts.<\/p>\n
Assessment: 100% coursework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
6 Credits| Dr. Ian Fong This course examines key ways of analyzing film art and culture. How films create meaning and how viewers make sense of the cinema frame this exploration of film as visual language and cultural text in the context of global cultures. The course places emphasis on learning basic film terminology and … <\/p>\n