CAM 3064 Film & Media Aesthetics & Analysis
This course is an introduction to principles important to critical analysis of cinema and other moving image media such as television and the Internet. Students primarily will view a representative variety of American and foreign films from mainstream and alternative cinematic movements with an eye to understanding and parsing the aesthetic, technical and cultural choices made by filmmakers and by film viewers in their attempts to create and read meaning. The course will cover the techniques, technology and language used by professionals in the fields of moving image communication, and will give students a database of notable images and analyses useful in fields from advertising to media production. This course traces the development of cinema as an art form, a site of political and cultural struggle and as a vehicle for social analysis throughout the 20th century.