Film Analysis

Introduction to Film and Media Studies
- Studied cinema as both a culture and an art form, exploring it on-screen and through written critique.
- Focused on learning the fundamentals of film language, including mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound, to produce critical writing.
- Analyzed films representing diverse perspectives, eras, styles, and nationalities, with non-Anglophone films screened with English subtitles.

Vampire Films
- Learned about vampire traditions in Western cultures and how they evolved from the late Middle Ages to the present in written and cinematic forms.
- Emphasized theatrical-released film representations of those traditions, including their intercultural origins and transmission across national and cultural boundaries.

Cinema Director: Martin Scorsese
- Discussed the content of films selected for study.
- Recognized structural and thematic patterns characteristic of Scorsese’s work.
- Distinguished features among Scorsese’s films that indicated his development as an artist.
- Analyzed how Scorsese’s films related to selected historical and cultural contexts or theoretical schools.
- Evaluated particular films as examples of Scorsese’s work.

Star Wars
- Discussed and described cinematic and other visual media forms, genres, vocabulary, and concepts.
- Analyzed specific films and/or other visual media within their historical, cinematic, socioeconomic, and cultural contexts.
- Examined films and other visual media both verbally and in writing.
- Applied film theories to specific films and other visual media.
- Wrote critical argumentative essays supported by scholarly research.