ENG665 Film Theory

Lead Faculty: Dr. Janet Ann Baker

Course Description

An overview of film theory designed to give students the critical tools necessary to describe and evaluate various aspects of cinema art. This course introduces concepts from a wide range of approaches, including Deconstruction, Existentialism, Marxism, Post-Theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, transcendentalism; focussing on such thinkers as Althusser, Bazin, Deleuze, Derrida, Sobchack, and Truffaut. (Essays are included as a part of the MFA digital portfolio.)

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