INI 330Y counts towards Specialist, Major or Minor programmes in Cinema Studies.

Course Description
The British/French/American revolution in film study and theory was initiated in English largely by Screen magazine in the early 1970s. It proceeded to sweep the academic world of cinema over the next two decades. The project was to construct a social, political and aesthetic theory specific to the study of cinema and popular culture. Althusserian marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, semiotics, and feminist theory were all brought to bear on the work which sought to define new terminology and new methodologies for the study of cinema.

In the 1990s some new theoreoretical waves started to roll in. Some thinkers critiqued previous work, while others built upon it. This course will emphasize the seminal theories and theoreticians of current film theory. Topics range from realism and the progressive text to post-modernism, new media and reconfigurations of psychoanalysis.

Keeping up with the texts and participation in class discussion will be necessary. Films will be screened every week.

Purpose of the Course
Discussion of specialized topics in film theory at an upper level.

Texts to Buy
Course Reader.

Assignments and Evaluation
Bibliography Assignment (1st term) 25%; Xmas Test 15%; Term Paper (2nd term) 30%; Spring Test 15%; Participation 15%.

There will be no final examination.