ࡱ > \ ^ [ ZU bjbj 7^ x x Y+ + 0 0 8 $ L 0 A ( i n $ " $ J n n < ` + p 0 # % \ . % + + r % 4 % 0 K : FIL 3803: Film Theory, 3 cr hr. Fall 2011 * Tuesdays 11:00 3:20 * CU 109 School of Communications and Multimedia Դɼ Prof. Stephen Charbonneau Office: CU 215 Office Hours: Thursdays 1 3 pm Phone: 297-3856 Email: scharbo1@fau.edu COURSE TEXTS Film Theory: An Introduction, Robert Stam (Blackwell, 2000) Film Theory & Criticism, Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (Seventh Edition; Oxford, 2008) Additional Readings on Blackboard COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is an introduction to the development of film theory from the classical period of Sergei Eisenstein and Andre Bazin, through the semiotic turn in the sixties, and finally to the post-structuralist, postmodernist, and post-theory developments in the final decades of the twentieth century. Fundamentally, we are concerned with a history of different and competing schools of thought pertaining to an ontology of cinema, its relationship to society, and its impact on the spectator. Key topics for the course include formalis m , r e a l i s m , a u t h o r s h i p , s o c i o l o g y , s e m i o t i c s , p s y c h o a n a l y s i s , f e m i n i s m , a n d c u l t u r a l s t u d i e s . R E Q U I R E M E N T S C o u r s e r e q u i r e m e n t s i n c l u d e : R e a d i n g s f r o m t h e c o u r s e t e x t b o o k s ( F i l m T h e o r y ; F i l m T h e o r y &