HMS-240A Intro to the Critical Analysis of Cinema

3 Credits

This course is an introduction to the history, analytic concepts, and critical vocabulary necessary for understanding cinema as a major cultural form of the 20th century. You will be invited to see cinema as a dynamic and international art form that has evolved in response to its own history, that of the other arts, and wider historical, political, technological, and economic contexts. The goal of this class is to serve as an introduction both to film history and to how to think, write, and talk about films as media of cultural praxis.