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ENG 440: Film Theory
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- This course examines film theories of realism, formalism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, structuralism, post-structuralism, cognitive criticism, as well as recent discourses on film phenomenology and ?cinema of the body.? The course addresses classical and contemporary film paradigms through the interaction between Moving Image and Senses, Body and Mind, emphasizing such metaphors of filmic experience as Window and Frame, Door and Screen, Mirror and Face. Assigned readings include selections from the writings of Bazin, Eisenstein, Baudry, Metz, Balasz, Gunning, Arnheim, Mulvey, Bordwell, Deleuze, Marks, and Sobchack, among others.
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- Tanya Shilina-Conte
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