Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis CNPH 10100 is now open for Summer Session I.
This asynchronous online course fulfills an ICC Diversity Designation requirement and is open to all students at Ithaca college regardless of major or school.
Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis provides a survey of multicultural and global cinemas from 1895 to 2020. It trains students in how to actively "read" a film rather than to passively "consume" a movie.
The course focuses on the aesthetics, history, economics, industry, and politics of multiple forms of cinema across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes.
It unpacks the specific formal language of cinematic form in sound, cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene, music, and various narrative structures.
The course ranges from classical Hollywood cinema to international art cinemas to the avant-garde to politically-engaged documentary to myriad experimental practices to animation in its many forms.
The course studies films from Mexico, India, China, Cuba, Senegal, Benin, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, Argentina, Zimbabwe, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and more!
For more information contact Dr. Rachel Schaff (rschaff@ithaca.edu).