Inventing Film Theory

Fall 2010

INVENTING FILM THEORY

Listed in: English, as ENGL-95  |  Film and Media Studies, as FAMS-70

Faculty

Amelie E. Hastie (Section 03)

Description

(Offered as ENGL 95-03 and FAMS 70.)  As an upper-division seminar in film theory, this course will offer an in-depth examination of historically significant writings that analyze film form and its social functions and effects.  Our particular focus will be on the production of film theory in a collective setting:  the film/media journal.  Thus the course will be organized by five units, each centering on a particular journal in generally chronological order:  Close Up, Cahiers du Cinéma, Film Culture, Screen, and Camera Obscura.  Through this structure, we will consider how ideas have developed and transformed, often in dialogue with one another and on an international stage.  Our purpose will be threefold:  to understand the context for the production and development of film theories; to comprehend a wide range of changing theoretical notions and methodologies; and to create our own dialogue with these works, considering especially their impact on their own contemporaneous film viewers and on viewing positions today.  One three-hour class meeting and one film screening per week.

Prior coursework in Film and Media Studies is strongly recommended.  Limited to 15 students.  Fall semester.  Professor Hastie.

If Overenrolled: Preference given to senior and junior English majors.

Course times and locations

ENGL 95 - L/D

Section 03
W 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM JOCH 21

Offerings

2022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 20112022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 20112022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 20162022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 20112022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 20102022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Fall 20102022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 20222022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 20112022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2010, Fall 20162022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 20102022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2018