SWAN 405 - Special Topics in Film Theory

3 credits
3 hours per week.

This course will survey contemporary film theory and criticism. Since the 1970s, film scholars have developed and modified a range of critical methods for the study of media texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, cultural studies, queer theory, audience and star studies, post-colonialism, genre analysis, and many others. This course will examine those elements as well as the more recent scholarship in the context of our present cultural and critical landscape. May be repeated under different subtitles.

Prerequisite(s) SWAN 350 or SWAN 355 or permission of Instructor required to register