We will also examine how producers, exhibitors, and distributors have marketed films, and how audiences and critics have consumed and interpreted them. To this end, we will look at how fiction films, documentaries, DVD extras and fan texts address their audience and depict the industry, its practitioners, and the creative process of filmmaking. The goal is to examine how the film industry promotes and represents itself. A wide range of films will be screened and analyzed, from “blockbusters” to “art films” and studio-based “indies.” Adopting a transnational perspective, we will analyze film content and style in relation to various industry practices and technological developments.

DESCRIPTION: In this course, we will focus on the film industry’s three major branches-production, distribution, and exhibition.

This is available from the Carleton University Bookstore, either as a paper copy or as an eBook.įILM 1101B Introduction to Film Studies - Winter Sixth Edition (Boston and New York: Bedford and St.

READINGS: Textbook: Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, The Film Experience: An Introduction.

Full details on assignments and grading will be provided in the syllabus. All assignments will test your knowledge of the basic analytical terms and formal and critical concepts from the assigned textbook. The specific combination of assignments is optional.

METHOD OF EVALUATION: Students will be asked to write a series of short Formal Analyses of scenes selected from the assigned films and/or complete a series of Exams.

We will watch films from the entire history of the cinema, since its invention in about 1895, as examples of film styles and genres from around the world, while addressing the central critical issues in the study of the cinema.

DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to the main terms and concepts of Film Studies, considering film as an art and as entertainment, analysing the aesthetics of film form, and studying the cinema as a social practice.

Official Course Outlines will be distributed at the first class of the term.įILM 1101A Introduction to Film Studies - Fall

Official Calendar Course Descriptions are available in the Undergraduate and Graduate Calendars. Times and locations of courses are published in the Public Class Schedule. A Guide to Writing a Film Studies Paper.

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