MSCR 3600 — Film Theory
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ICNUpath WIusually offered: falltypical days: M/ThBostonTraditional
Explores the movement from modernist concern with the art object to postmodern concerns with subjectivity and spectatorship, race, and gender. Requires a paper using formalist analysis and later revision using cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, philosophy of perception, race studies. Also offers students an opportunity to learn research methods in cinema studies and perform a metacritical review of their own work and to present their findings from film journals, databases, Web sites, blogs. Presents the relation of perception to reality; levels of representational realness; reception theory; digitalization in its relation to movement and meaning. Seeks to enable students to recognize structures and problems for analysis in a film and to apply appropriate theoretical models to analyze these structures.
Prerequisites
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 95% | 1.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 100% | 0.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 75% · T 0% · W 0% · Th 75% · F 25%
Common patterns: MR (75% of sections), F (25% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Nathan Blake (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Nathan Blake (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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