| Lectures | Monday 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Town Hall, Innis College |
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| Screenings | Tuesday 4:00 - 7:00 pm, Town Hall, Innis College |
| Seminars | Wednesday 3:00 - 4:00; 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Room 222, Innis College |
| Office Hours | Wednesday 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Room 224, Innis College |
From its earliest days, cinema has attracted unusually sophisticated defenders, theorists and aestheticians inspired to write on cinema's nature, its prospects and its ideological entanglements. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the major theoretical positions and debates that have arisen from this group of writers who engendered what has come to be called film theory. Using readings of theory texts and film screenings, the course will examine selected major authors like Arnheim, Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Bazin, Metz, Godard, Mulvey, and tendencies including Formalism, Realism, Semiotics and Feminism.
Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, eds. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (5th edition). New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Supplementary Course Reader.
Recommended Supplementary Texts: J. Dudley Andrew, The Major Film Theories: An Introduction; Pam Cook, The Cinema Book; R. Stam, S. Flitterman-Lewis, et al, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics; N. Carroll, Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory; K. Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics.
Prerequisites: INI 112Y/115Y/Vic 112Y