Lecturer in charge: TBA [Room

The course begins with a brief overview of film theory and information about film production. It's focus is primarily thematic, analyzing cinematic treatments of relationships across boundaries of nation, ethnicity, religion, species, etc. The course draws on interpretive skills taught in literature departments, but also social-cultural analysis as developed in the social sciences, and forms of analysis specific to cinema. Among the objectives: to introduce students to the concept of film literacy; to compare film language with related idioms: literary language, the languages of popular culture, politics, etc.; to encourage thought and research papers on topics specific to the cinematic challenges of representing relations that transgress the boundaries of "race," nation, region, gender, etc.

Prerequisite: LITS 1006 ( E10F) and HUMN 2201 (AR22A) or LITS 2103 (E21C) or LITS2107 (E21G) or LITS2108 (E21H) or LITS2113 (E21M).

Instruction: One one-hour lecture and one screening (not exceeding two hours) per week, as well as one tutorial.

Assessment: Tutorial presentations 10%
2 essays 30%
Final exam 60%

Prescribed Texts:

(A collection of readings for purchase in the Departmental Office (Rm. 19), supplemented by class website readings)

Recommended Text:

Susan Hayward. Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (2nd ed., Routledge, 2000)