Course Catalog Information (24-25)
F/TV 43
Film Artists
Course Description
This course analyzes the works of specific film artists, such as directors Alfred Hitchcock or Spike Lee; or analyzes the works of artists practicing a specific film craft, such as screenwriting, acting, cinematography, or editing. The topic studied changes each quarter (see subtitle in the quarterly schedule of classes).
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify the film artist's contributions to the evolution of film and video as an art, technology, business and form of popular culture.
- Apply a critical methodology based on concepts of authorship, learned in class, to examine the works of a specific film artist.
- Analyze representations of class, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality in the cinema of the film artist, demonstrating an understanding of the politics of representation learned in class.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- Non-GE Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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