This course offers a focused yet wide-ranging overview of the history of film. Student will develop a historical understanding of film based on a survey of cinematic traditions and movements contained within narrative, documentary, and experimental forms, and acquire a critical, technical, and aesthetic vocabulary relating to particular cinematic practices and structures, including the impact of technological developments on film production, the formation of genre, the legacy of auteurism and the ways in which meaning in films is conditioned by the uses of camera, editing, lighting, sound and acting. This course satisfies the General Elective requirement.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DEN 102