Film and Media Theory

Prerequisites: FILM W1000. An introduction to some of the major texts in film theory, with particular attention to film theory’s evolving relations to a number of philosophical issues: the nature of the aesthetic; the relation of symbolic forms to the construction of human subjectivities; narrative and the structure of experience; modernity, technology, popular culture, and the rise of mass political formations; and meaning, intention, and authorship. FILM Q4001