2022-2023 Academic Catalog

May 12, 2024

2022-2023 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.

Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018

Course Designation/Attribute: VE

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every spring