2017-2018 Academic Catalog

Apr 19, 2024

2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SCRN 114 - Writing About Film: Methods of Film Analysis

Considers a variety of critical methods for the analysis and interpretation of film. The course considers several important kinds of writing about film, including journalistic film criticism and analysis based in film theory. Students actively practice all of these modes of writing to acquire the analytic skills used in upper-level courses. The major critical approaches or methodologies of film studies such as formalist criticism, genre criticism, auteur criticism and forms of ideological criticism are explored in coordination with weekly films.

Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: VE

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every spring