Basic Concepts in Cinema Studies

VMS 610S

Review of theory, methodology, and debates in study of film under three rubrics: mode of production or industry; apparatus or technologies of cinematic experience; text or the network of filmic systems (narrative, image, sound). Key concepts and their genealogies with the field: gaze theory, apparatus theory, suture, indexicality, color, continuity.
Curriculum Codes
  • ALP
Cross-Listed As
  • CINE 610S
  • LIT 610S
Typically Offered
Occasionally