Film History and Criticism to 1960

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course surveys the history and criticism of the cinema from its origins to the post-WWII period. The course emphasizes film form, principally narrative, mise-en-scene, editing, and sound, and forges links between the film text and social, economic and technological developments. Topics include: identification, race and representation, women's cinema, documentary and the avant-garde.