Film History & Form I

Topics

• Examines the development of film art, technology, and industry from the media environments and visual cultures of the late 19th century to the international conversion to synchronized sound cinema in the early 1930s.
• Acquire new informational content about the development of cinematic technologies within the media environment of late 19th-century visual-cultural and popular scientific interest in optical experiments. Acquire a conceptual vocabulary necessary for the examination of the relationship between film technology and adjacent media practices (photography, the panorama, vaudeville, etc.). Develop the analytic skills necessary to perform socio-historically grounded formal interpretation of film texts.

Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes