FLM 243 - World Film

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course offers an introduction to the history of film and will focus primarily on World Cinema: film from non-Western nations and films by non-traditional voices in the US and Europe. Lectures will relate significant political events and social issues to current and historical films. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the history, institutions, economy, society and culture of other world civilizations through screening and discussing narrative films from these cultures.