CRITICAL FILM ANALYSIS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: (Junior standing and COM ARTS 350 ) or declared in Communication Arts MA or PhD Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the formal patterning of mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing that produces various forms of meaning in a film text Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize different approaches to film analysis derived from semiotics, feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and neoformalism Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Apply an array of principles and perspectives in close description and analysis of film scenes and sequences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess and utilize critical concepts pertinent to methodologies and practices of film analysis Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the formal patterning of mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing that produces various forms of meaning in a film text Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize different approaches to film analysis derived from semiotics, feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and neoformalism Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Apply an array of principles and perspectives in close description and analysis of film scenes and sequences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess and utilize critical concepts pertinent to methodologies and practices of film analysis Audience: Graduate