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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian Quendler Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian Quendler, +43 512 507 41605

610016

Introduction to Film Studies

VU 2

3,5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

The course serves as an introduction to film history, film theory, and film analysis. We will explore a set of interrelated approaches to studying aspects of form, narrative, genre, gender, and ethnicity. In continuation of last semester’s emphasis on the transition from silent to sound cinema, this semester’s course will focus on the cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The class incorporates a practical dimension dealing with technical features of film, such as lighting, camera, and editing. This will guide students in the production of their own short films that will be screened at the end of the term.

Lecture, texts, and film clips, individual and group discussion, final test, group production of short films.

Active participation, written final exam, short written assignment

Recommended introductory reading: Nelmes, Jill. _An Introduction to Film Studies_. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Beginn: 11.3.2009