Course Description

Film Studies 372F/G Contemporary Film Theory

This course examines developments in film theory since 1968. Beginning with neo-formalist assessment of classical Hollywood cinema's narrational principles and procedures, the course will cover some central debates affecting film theory over the past thirty-five years including ideological questions, apparatus theory, feminism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, queer theory and postcolonialism.

Antirequisite: The former Film Studies 272F/G.

Prerequisites: Film Studies 371F/G or the former Film Studies 271F/G, or permission of the Department.

2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening, half course.

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