You may also study cinema and culture in the Film Studies Minor.
| The Bachelor of Arts degree in English FILM STUDIES CONCENTRATION In the Film Studies Concentration, students survey the classic beauty of the moving image. Film courses feature the interplay of cinematic and literary genres and attend to the fundamental qualities of film as a visual art. Students will expand this knowledge of visual form to consider its inflection within American and global cinematic traditions and filmic experimentation by the most daring of motion picture directors. Students will then investigate the ways film has become a dominant medium for transmitting cultural values and debates across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Examining the historical, cultural, and theoretical intersections among film, literature, and society, students will learn to navigate the complex mediascape of contemporary life. ENGL 380, 415, and 423 may be taken again for credit to account for the numerous film genres, directors, and types of cinematic adaptations that could be taught given the faculty’s areas of expertise. |
In addition to requiring successful completion of the
liberal learning curriculum, the film studies concentration,
requires successful completion of the following courses
in major and elective studies: |
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