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Film Studies
Communication, Journalism & Media Studies Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Film Studies
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Media Studies
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 13522
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Students are expected to have completed 'Moving Image History' and 'Reading Moving Image'.
DESCRIPTION
1-What is cinema? Introduction and basic concepts.
1.1-Ways of understanding Cinema. Industry, Institution, Culture, Aesthetic.
1.2-Film Modes and Worlds: Documentary, Experimental and Fiction.
1.3-Development of film theories.
1.4-Film studies as a discipline.
2-Realism and Auteur Cinema.
2.1-The problem of realism: Aristarco, Bazin, Kracauer.
2.2-New realisms: from frame to pixel.
2.3-Film's vindications: auteur cinema and Third Cinema. Art and Politics.
3-Formalism and Textual Analysis.
3.1-Russian Formalism: Vertov, Eisenstein.
3.2-Textual passion and film as a language: semiotics and structuralism.
3.3-The post-stucturalist reform.
4-Identity Politics and Reception Theories.
4.1-Feminism and gender studies.
4.2-Cultural studies, multicultural phenomena.
4.3-Visionary pleasures. Reception and fandom.
1.1-Ways of understanding Cinema. Industry, Institution, Culture, Aesthetic.
1.2-Film Modes and Worlds: Documentary, Experimental and Fiction.
1.3-Development of film theories.
1.4-Film studies as a discipline.
2-Realism and Auteur Cinema.
2.1-The problem of realism: Aristarco, Bazin, Kracauer.
2.2-New realisms: from frame to pixel.
2.3-Film's vindications: auteur cinema and Third Cinema. Art and Politics.
3-Formalism and Textual Analysis.
3.1-Russian Formalism: Vertov, Eisenstein.
3.2-Textual passion and film as a language: semiotics and structuralism.
3.3-The post-stucturalist reform.
4-Identity Politics and Reception Theories.
4.1-Feminism and gender studies.
4.2-Cultural studies, multicultural phenomena.
4.3-Visionary pleasures. Reception and fandom.