Special Topics in Popular Cinema

3 credits · Undergraduate

This advanced seminar addresses an issue in popular cinema. Topics may include but are not limited to: critical perspectives on a particular set of films; the relation between “independent” cinema and “mainstream” cinema; or the social and aesthetic impact of new technologies in popular cinema. The identity of the topic to be studied will be assigned by the Fountain School of Performing Arts at the end of the preceding academic year and then posted at the School and in the University's timetable. PREREQUISITES: FILM 2311.03 (and FILM 2360.03 is recommended) FORMATS: Seminar