COM 350 - Studies in Film and Video

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Bryant University

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This course has three major aims: to introduce students to what might be called the language of film--the techniques used by filmmakers to tell their stories--to investigate the relationship between movies and culture, and to consider film as both an art form and a global business. We will examine the tools filmmakers employ to bring their works to the screen, including cinematography, production design, acting, editing, music, sound design, and narrative structure. We will also focus on how the cinema both reflects and perpetuates aspects of culture, investigating the images of masculinity, femininity, class, and race relations we find there. By semester's end students should have a much clearer sense of what goes into the making of movies, and should have become a much more active, critical viewer of the films they see. This course is cross-listed with ECS350, Studies in Film and Video. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Communication Department Course Attributes: Communication Concentration, Communication Minor, English & Cult. Studies, English & Cult. St.udies Minor, Liberal Arts Elective, Literary and Cultural Studies, Lit and Cultural Studies Minor, Literary Mode of Thought, Communication Major

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bryant.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 232-6000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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