SPE 3490 - Cinema as Communication

3(2 + 2)

Prerequisite: SPE 2400 or ENG 2860; or Permission of instructor

Students in this course will learn to critique how films communicate to a mass audience, including considerations such as rhetoric, ideology, performance, and spectatorship. Assigned work will include reading in communication theory as well as writing an essay that critiques a particular film as an instance of communication art or science, or both. Class time includes lab hours during which various films will be screened.