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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CSS 310 - Film Theory


An examination of and direct engagement with the key ideas and major debates within film theory from the classical period (20s and 30s) through cinephilia, auteurism and academicization (50s and 60s), structuralism and its sequels (70s and 80s), to the contemporary turns toward politics and embodiment, new historiographies, film philosophy, cognitivism, neuroscience and media archaeology.

Note: Lecture 3 credits; zero credit lab.
Prerequisite: CSS 210 or ENG 286
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3