258. Introduction to Film Studies
Film studies provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how film interacts with our broader culture. The course explores how film language, narrative, genres, stars, audience reception, film exhibition and synergies with other media determine how and which films are produced and consumed in the U.S. We will view films from the 1940s through the 1990s to examine how films mediate, reinforce and resist dominant social values, paying special attention to how Hollywood film has represented gender, sexuality, race and class. Required weekly film viewing.
(Josh Stenger)