MLA Practicum: Film Form, Politics, and Analysis

1 credits · Graduate

This is a crash course in film analysis, intended to introduce students both to the key elements of film language (mise-en-scene, editing, cinematography, etc.) and to the socio-cultural and political functions of cinema. Emphasis will be placed on methods of close reading of film style and form, and dynamic intersections of aesthetic and ideological concerns in the register of the moving image. Narrative, documentary, and experimental films from around the world will be screened and discussed in class.