Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3115 Section 001: Cinema and Ideology (34605)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 325
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Thu 09:45AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 325
Course Catalog Description:
The cinema as a social institution with emphasis on the complex relations it maintains with the ideological practices that define both the form and the content of its products. Specific films used to study how mass culture contributes to the process of shaping beliefs and identities of citizens.
Class Description:
This is a course in film criticism and theories of ideology. Our concern will be to gain a critical perspective on the problem of ideology as it pertains to the cinema (rather than with the ideological content of films per se--though that too will be addressed). Theorizing issues of cinema and ideology requires that we have a shared understanding of (1) film form: how the technical apparatus of film functions to produce ideological understandings of the world; (2) film content: how ideology is inscribed in and through filmic narrative; and (3) film spectatorship: how (and whether) the ways that viewers are positioned to make sense of themselves and the world have implications for social relations at large (outside the cinema). Using formal, theoretical and interpretive arguments, we will attempt to formulate readings both of recurrent ideological themes in the cinema (such as: class conflict; corporate crime; political repression and conspiracy) as well as develop conceptual arguments about the nature of the cinematic image.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34605/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
7 November 2008

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