Language of Film

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will introduce students to the lexicon of film and the diverse techniques through which films generate meaning. The course will encompass major movements in film history and theory: Silent to Sound, Auteur and Genre Theory, Transnational Cinemas, and the Digital Revolution in Cinema. It will challenge students to think analytically about the ways in which films construct meaning, including the uses of cinematography, editing, art direction, screenplay and sound. The course will denaturalise and deconstruct the proverbial magic of the silver screen, firmly locating film within its cultural and ideological discourses. This course is specifically designed to equip students with the analytical tools required for the Film and Screen Production major and is, therefore, a prerequisite for a number of upper level Communications and Media courses.