Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis CNPH 10100 is now open to ALL STUDENTS AT ITHACA COLLEGE REGARDLESS OF MAJOR OR SCHOOL.
The mass lecture/screening meets at 6 p.m. on Monday in Park Auditorium, with ten smaller breakout discussion sections meeting once each on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis is a team-taught large lecture course of 200 students. It includes smaller 20-student breakout sections for discussion and engagement with individual professors on the teaching team.
Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis provides the student with the basic skills necessary to read a film critically. This course concentrates on formal analysis, emphasizing the aesthetic, historical, and ideological elements that comprise the multiple languages of world cinema.
The course introduces the student to various genres of narrative cinema as well as to different practices of cinema such as experimental, documentary, animation, and hybrid forms. This course provides an introduction to cinema as an artistic practice that spans the globe in its contemporary as well as historical modes.
For background on this long-standing course at Ithaca College, read this story:
https://www.ithaca.edu/news/show-must-go
For more information, contact Dr. Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Course Convener for Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis
