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F/TV 41
Film Genres
Course Description
This course provides an analysis of specific film genres such as comedy, film noir, gangster, horror, musical, science fiction, thriller, war, or Western, within global, historical, social, cultural, industrial, and aesthetic contexts. The genre studied changes each quarter (see subtitle in the quarterly schedule of classes).
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify and describe the evolution of the genre in motion pictures and its role in national and international film history.
- Apply an analytical approach learned in class to examine the dominant narrative, visual and aural conventions of films within a specific genre.
- Analyze generic representations of class, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, demonstrating an understanding of the politics of representation learned in class.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- Non-GE Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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