ENGFLM 1549 - INDUSTRIES AND FESTIVALS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This Film and Media Studies Program topics course serves as an overview of film histories historically and today, and it will explore the crucial ways that film industries have shaped contemporary production, exhibition, and distribution practices. Within the course, there will be a specific emphasis on film festival as a crucial element in global cinema. Film industries, be they free market giants such as Hollywood or national industries funded in part or in whole by the state, are crucial factor in the ways that films are made and shown, influencing aesthetics, politics, and the cultures of filmmaking. Explorations of film industries have shown how distinct market forces, technologies, national politics, and globalization have affected all aspects of cinema. This course will examine these elements, focusing on the Classical Hollywood era, the 1970s New American Cinema, and contemporary transnational film industries. Moreover, the course will focus specifically on the role of film festivals in the film industry. Since the pre-WWII era, film festivals have played a crucial role in a myriad of industries and markets, developing alternatives to Hollywood, promoting national cinemas, legitimizing colonialism, advocating anti-colonialism, and imagining a space for art in the cinematic industry. The course will examine festival history, theory and methods, allowing students to learn about how festivals have impacted industry history and how festivals are produced and executed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212 or 0213 or 0214) or FP (0003 or 0006) *Applies to all WRIT Courses*

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