Investigations into film studies that address specific directors, genres, national/regional traditions, periods, theories, and/or theorists. Attention might center upon Hitchcock, Kurosawa, or Varda; on the documentary, the romantic comedy, the science fiction film, or the western; on Cuban, Italian, Korean, or West African film, on the silent-to-sound transition of a century ago, or the traditionally- to digitally-animated transition of this century; on apparatus, or auteur, or feminist, or psychoanalytic film theory; or via the work of Cavell, Deleuze, Mulvey, or Žižek, for example. This course may be repeated for different topics.
This course will be offered in academic years ending in odd numbers.