FILM

FILM-171  Introduction to the American Cinema

3 Credits (Fine Arts/Humanities
Core)

As a result of taking this course, the student should be able to demonstrate knowledge of aesthetic principles as they apply to the film as an art medium. The student will view a wide variety of selected films including films directed by women and directors of color. Films will be discussed in class. The student will show a prescribed level of mastery of technical terms and concepts on examination. (3 hours weekly)

FILM-172  Introduction to World Cinema

3 Credits (Fine Arts/Humanities
Core)

This course will focus on the thematic and technical concerns of great European and Asian directors from the Soviet Eisenstein’s ground-breaking ideas about editing in the 1920s to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s founding of the New German Cinema in the 1970s. Films from Japan, Italy, France, Sweden, Brazil and India will be featured. (3 hours weekly)