COMM 221: History of the Motion Picture: Fiction Films

A comprehensive overview of the international narrative cinema from the 1890s to the present. Each week there will be a screening and in-class analysis of one or more essential films from the country, movement, or period under discussion. The course examines film not only as an industrial, technological, political and social phenomenon, but especially as an art form. The course emphasizes cinema’s artistic genealogy and relationship to other art forms, including painting, literature, theater, and video.