Courses / Graduate

Spring 2019

  • Graduate Film Theory

    200 | CCN: 32574

    Anne Nesbet

    4 Units

    M 11:00 – 4:00 PM, Dwinelle 226 ///

    This seminar will examine both traditional and recent critical approaches to a systematic and historical study of film. Although we will emphasize contemporary structuralist-semiotic, psychoanalytical, and socio-critical methods, we will also study the classical debates in film theory about representation, filmic vs. literary signification, sexual difference, and the social function of images in modernism and postmodernism. Illustrations will be taken from film history from 1910 to 1980.