FILM ANALYSIS   [Archived Catalog]
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog
   

FMST 0150 - FILM ANALYSIS


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the art of the cinema, and to the techniques for its formal analysis. It examines the nature of shot composition and visual framing, the use of color, the role of lighting as a pictorial element, the potentials of camera movement, the modes of editing and the nature of image/sound montage. It also introduces students to dominant cinema forms--narrative, experimental, documentary, etc. This is a Critical Studies course and is a required course for the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies


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