Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

FILM 3160 - Film Aesthetics


An introduction to key methodologies, central issues, and debates within film studies, focused on a select group of film techniques. This course offers further work in film studies, focusing on the formal and critical dimensions of film. Introduces selected key events and movements in film history and selected texts in film theory.

Requisites: Two of the following: FILM 2010 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,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to list and explain key moments of aesthetic development in relation to the film techniques being studied.
  • Students will be able to analyze the use of specific aesthetic techniques in key films and by specific filmmakers.
  • Students will be able to describe the central theoretical and critical argument surrounding the aesthetic questions discussed.


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