FILM 226 Critical Inquiry Units: 3.00
Textual analysis of narrative and other films, including examination of formal, aesthetic, and narrative techniques and conventions, and their production of meaning in social and political contexts.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0 or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0] and permission of the Department).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Articulate, orally and in writing, how road movies function as both a film genre and cultural form and how characters construct community, identity, and mobility in relation to place.
- Compare, criticize, and analyze film sequences using film language.
- Compose film reviews using the tools and theories seen in class.
- Define and recognize the major film theories studied in class.