ENGL 313 - Genre Studies: Narrative Film

3 Credit(s)

The rise of film as an artistic medium and as a vehicle for storytelling has shaped our understanding of narrative in the 20th and 21st centuries. We can learn a great deal about how stories work in terms of character, theme, and perspective through the study of film, and an appreciation of how film directors, actors, and their creative teams have developed and exploited the medium through specific artistic choices can deepen our grasp of how narrative works in a variety of genres and contexts. This course offers the opportunity to explore cinema in depth, using critical studies and film theory to develop vocabulary and techniques to analyze an array of special topics given on a rotating basis—from screwball comedy to cinema of the 1970s; from the work of Billy Wilder to the Coen Brothers; from women in film to westerns.
Satisfies a 300-level English elective for majors and minors or a humanities general education requirement for non-majors.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 103, ENGL 120, or COMS 130, or permission of the instructor.