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MC2622 This module focuses on film and cultural theory, introducing the one through the other and vice versa. Cultural theory is introduced, explored and tested by way of film, and films will be interpreted by way of cultural theory. Accordingly, students will develop a good foundation in film and cultural theory, and develop knowledge of key debates in cultural theory, film theory, cultural studies and visual cultural analysis. Weekly readings will be relevant texts in film and cultural theory. Lectures will provide introductions, overviews and explanations. Screenings will primarily be of relatively contemporary English language films (plus some foreign language films), and assessment will take the form of essay plan, presentation and final essay.
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Course Description: Throughout this semester, we will examine the development of the film industry from its inception until the 1950s. Our focus will primarily be on American cinema, but we will discuss important foreign works that had great influence on the industry as a whole. Scholars approach film history from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives such as economics, aesthetics, cultural theory, audience studies, production studies, technology, and many others. Our readings, assignments and discussions will touch on these various ways to explore film as we learn about the trajectory of the film industry and its vast influence on other media as well as our culture. We will consider how films serve as historical artifacts that inform and enlighten us about the socioeconomic and cultural along with important national and world events. In this class, you will be required to critically examine complex issues in writing and will further develop your research an analytical skills as media scholars. Assignments will test your knowledge and challenge you to put the course concepts into practice as you develop your own theories about films and how the film industry works.
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Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
This course provides an introduction to the study of film aesthetics, history, and criticism. It introduces an aesthetic vocabulary that students will use to analyze components of film form, such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and genre. The course approaches films as texts that indicate cultural attitudes and norms of their time and that can be understood through textual analysis. A number of critical methodologies are introduced to study cinema’s role in American culture, including issues of race, class, and gender. The course seeks to enhance the students’ understanding of film from a historical perspective, contextualizing film within the history of cinema technology and the movie industry.
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The Handbook of Visual Culture, ed. Heywood and Sandywell
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The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology
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Abstract: We can divide the society into two groups, one is the public group which is the general audience who has no right or the authority to make a film, the other group is the special one which is specializing in making the films. Governments however, are the ones and only main authority that can set ground rules for the special group, in order to limit the productions according to their needs, politically, economically, socially and so on. There are many major companies in the world, one of them is Hollywood which is the biggest one and located in the United States of America. Films have two effects on society, positive and negative one, the audience is responsible for both of them and can direct both of them under their own will. Since the government of the country has the main authority to direct the media, we will mention a brief look into my governmental impact which is the Iranian government on the films, which is in a way limited the products because of their strict rules. Films are produced according to many aspects, they are based on the culture of each country, and however, some countries try to influence their society by producing some movies that have some hidden ideas which is called the imperialism.
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