Course Description

Film Studies 272F/G Contemporary Film Theory

This course will examine recent film theories, beginning with new approaches to film authorship and its corollary topic, spectatorship. It will also pay particular attention to new theories deriving from Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminism.

Prerequisite: At least 60% in Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department.

1 3-hour lecture/screening, 2 lecture/seminar hours, half course.

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