Elective

CLIT7021 Approaches to Cinematic Arts

This course introduces theoretical and critical approaches to the study of film in an international and interdisciplinary frame. It acquaints students with selections from classical, contemporary, and postcolonial theories of film and cinema, with emphasis on the revisions and interventions informed by feminisms, Third Cinema, postcolonialism, postmodernism, queer theory, and digital culture. Beginning with readings on visuality and critical visions, the course introduces different theories and positions on the questions of medium specificity, film's relation with the other arts, concepts used in film criticism, theories and practices of cinema, and cinematic arts in digital humanities.