This course serves as an introduction to the study of film and related visual media, examining fundamental issues of aesthetics (mise-en-scene, editing, sound), history (interaction of industrial, economic, and technological factors), theory (spectatorship, realism, and indexicality), and criticism (auteurist, feminist, and genre-based approaches). The course also investigates how digital media change has been productive of new frameworks for moving image culture in the present. Discussion section FILM UN1001 is a required corequisite.
This course, designed for First-Year Barnard students in the fall of 2020, puts our current moment into multiple contexts. COVID-19 has triggered massive social, economic, political, and environmental upheaval that requires critical analysis and broader perspectives. What does this moment reveal about existing power structures, value systems, and the institutions that (re)produce them? What might our world look like as we move forward? Through lectures by renowned experts, collaboration with Barnard’s incomparable intellectual and material resources, small discussion groups, and peer-to-peer projects that will live on in Barnard’s digital archives, students will learn how to make sense of the “big problems” of 2020.
This course, designed for First-Year Barnard students in the fall of 2020, puts our current moment into multiple contexts. COVID-19 has triggered massive social, economic, political, and environmental upheaval that requires critical analysis and broader perspectives. What does this moment reveal about existing power structures, value systems, and the institutions that (re)produce them? What might our world look like as we move forward? Through lectures by renowned experts, collaboration with Barnard’s incomparable intellectual and material resources, small discussion groups, and peer-to-peer projects that will live on in Barnard’s digital archives, students will learn how to make sense of the “big problems” of 2020.
This course, designed for First-Year Barnard students in the fall of 2020, puts our current moment into multiple contexts. COVID-19 has triggered massive social, economic, political, and environmental upheaval that requires critical analysis and broader perspectives. What does this moment reveal about existing power structures, value systems, and the institutions that (re)produce them? What might our world look like as we move forward? Through lectures by renowned experts, collaboration with Barnard’s incomparable intellectual and material resources, small discussion groups, and peer-to-peer projects that will live on in Barnard’s digital archives, students will learn how to make sense of the “big problems” of 2020.
This course, designed for First-Year Barnard students in the fall of 2020, puts our current moment into multiple contexts. COVID-19 has triggered massive social, economic, political, and environmental upheaval that requires critical analysis and broader perspectives. What does this moment reveal about existing power structures, value systems, and the institutions that (re)produce them? What might our world look like as we move forward? Through lectures by renowned experts, collaboration with Barnard’s incomparable intellectual and material resources, small discussion groups, and peer-to-peer projects that will live on in Barnard’s digital archives, students will learn how to make sense of the “big problems” of 2020.