FILM 310 Film Theory and Criticism

(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Prerequisites: FILM 120 and an additional 3 credits of coursework with the FILM prefix. Co-requisite: FILM 311. A historical survey of film theories and criticism, including formalist and structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory. Genre theory and theories of spectatorship and audience response will also be considered.