Cinema and Ideology (FILMEDIA 430)

4–5 credits · Graduate

This graduate seminar explores the relationship between cinema and ideology from a variety of methodological perspectives. Psychoanalytically inflected film theory (suture, apparatus, the gaze) and critique of ideology, as well as a range of historical and contemporary practices of political filmmaking, will be studied. Particular emphasis will be placed on formal analysis and close reading of selected films and written texts.