FILM SOUND
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
   

ENGFLM 1483 - FILM SOUND


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description In this course, we will shift the way we think about films and learn to listen to films, using the language and tools of audio analysis to analyze the aural environment produced by films. Topics include the history of film sound, the relation of sound and image, aural and visual pleasures, sound and narrative meaning, soundscapes and theories of shock and modernity, the aesthetics of analog and digital sound in cinema, the 'realism' of recorded sound, film sound and space, sound in documentary cinema, and culturally specific theories of sound. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.


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