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ENG 365 LITERATURE AND FILM - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and 200. .

Examines the relationship between literary techniques and. those specific to cinema; how to "read" film; modes of adaptation as an historically specific interpretive process.


ENG 366 HISTORY OF NARRATIVE FILM  - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and 200.

Examines the history and development of narrative film from the silent era to the present. Emphasis on specific narrative conventions of Hollywood cinema. .


ENG 368 JAPANESE CINEMA IN TRANSLATION - 3 Hours Prerequisite: ENG 200
Examines major periods, genres and figures in Japanese cinema, with ap­propriate background readings in Japanese history/culture. Emphasizes a comparison of Japanese cinema with Hollywood and explores the influence of Japanese cinema on other world cinema.

 

ENG 465/G FILM GENRES - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and 200 and either COM 271 or ENG 365, or instructor's permission.

Study of the historical development, thematic and stylistic conventions, and cultural significance of film genre(s).  Surveys representative films from one or two genres, e.g. film noir and the Western; romantic comedy and family melodrama; horror and science fiction; the musical; the war film; the epic.

ENG 466/G FILM THEORY - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 366, ENG 365; BCOM 271, or permission of Instructor.

Study of major theories of narrative film and related media; specific theories examined will include formalist, auteurist, historical, structuralist, psychoanalytical, and political. Will include viewing of selected films.


Film Studies Minor

 

 



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