COMM 3150 - Film Analysis

Institution:

Tulane University of Louisiana

Subject:

Communication

Description:

Professor Balides, Professor Lopez, Professor Ukadike, Professor Esch. Introduction to film analysis designed to help students develop a visual literacy with regard to film and a critical understanding of how films produce meanings. Focus is on formal analysis of film including elements such as narrative, mise-en-scène, editing, camera movement, sound and on key critical and theoretical approaches such as neoformalism and psychoanalysis. Classical Hollywood cinema and avant-garde and independent film making traditions are studied in order to focus on the “politics of form.” A required film journal helps students develop analytical and critical skills. Required course for the film studies minor.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.tulane.edu

Phone Number:

(504) 865-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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