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FS 101 - Introduction to Film Studies

Semester Hours: 4

This course focuses on the major language systems of film: photography, mise en scene, movement, editing, sound, acting, sets and costumes, writing and narrative structure, and ideology. Emphasis is on how formalist and realist filmmakers use these language systems to create meaning. Through lecture, reading, discussion, and screening of films, the students will become informed, sophisticated, active observers of cinema. Meets Humanity and Culture Intellectual Perspective requirement (HC).

Intellectual Perspective: HC