Introduction To Film Studies

AY2014/2015 Semester 1

The course is designed to provide a general introduction to the discipline of film studies. It is the prerequisite course for all film minor elective courses. Through screenings, readings, discussions, and critical writing, students will develop a formal and aesthetic appreciation of film and acquire a general awareness of film history and its key movements. The course will also offer basic theoretical approaches to the various genres of narrative cinema as well as different modes of nonfiction cinema (documentary and avant-garde film practices) so that students will understand how cinema has developed globally and locally as art, technology, and social practices from the late 19th century to the digital age.