CINE 210 - Visual Analysis

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

CINEMA

Description:

This course will introduce students to systems of critical analysis of visual images, particularly of the cinema. These include contemporary critical frameworks of cinematic analysis, as well as analysis of the visual components of images in media production, and how their manipulation can help communicate meaning. Prerequisite: CINE 150. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Identify implied ideas and values in visual media (2) Identify how historical and cultural factors shape the implied meanings of a work of visual media (3) Apply a specific critical framework in analyzing visual media (4) Support a critical analysis of visual media through assembling research into a persuasive argument (5) Identify the basic visual components of visual media. (6) Identify how the variation of these components can communicate meaning, and apply these concepts related in assignments.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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