COM 1104 - Introduction to Cinema

A survey of film history, theory, and aesthetics designed to introduce students to the “language” of motion pictures –- including critical analyses of image, sound, montage, and narrative – and to the fundamental ideas of cinema theorists such as Arnheim, Bazin, Eisenstein, Kuleshov, Mulvey, Munsterberg, and Sarris [relevant film theorists?]. This course includes a weekly three-hour film viewing session.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Second-semester first-year standing