ENGH322
Thinking about Genre through Film
English
College of Liberal Arts
Course Subject Code
ENGH
Course Number
322
Status
Active
Course Attributes
CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, EMME: Major-Media and Comms Elective, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MENL: Major-English:Literature, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, MMED: Major-Media and Communications, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, ENME: Minor-Media and Comms Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature, NFIL: Minor-Film, NMED: Minor-Media and Communications
Course Short Title
Thinking about Genre Thru Film
Course Long Title
Thinking about Genre through Film
Course Description
What is a genre? How do assumptions shaped by genre inform our interpretation of literary and film texts and structure our experiences of those narratives? Students will have the opportunity to explore these questions through reading film and genre theory and through viewing classic and contemporary films in such genres as film noir, melodrama, romance, and the western.
Min
4
Repeatable
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Equivalent Course(s)
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