Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

FILM 4520 - Film Theory II


Survey of post-classical film theory, including semiotics, psychoanalytic, feminist, post-colonial and contemporary film theory. Weekly screenings.

Requisites: Permission required and (FILM 2010 or 2020 or 2030)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Enhance academic writing and research skills that engage with film theory.
  • Gain familiarity with key texts and questions of post-classical film theory.
  • Trace the academic institutionalization of film theory and its relation to other disciplines (e.g., literary analysis, philosophy, history).


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