Subject code
MDC
Course Number
200
Course Title
Film History
General Education Category
Arts and Humanities
Semester Offered
Fall and Spring
Prerequisite
Activity
No
Course Fee(s)
No
Description
This course explores the film industry within the context of its historical, social, economic, and artistic influence. Students will examine the aesthetic and commercial interests of cinema and its historical development from the 1890s to the contemporary period. Students will study the technology, the industrial structures, the personnel, and the films that have marked the evolution of film from silent shorts, world cinema, and through the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, to the period of conglomeration and convergence that currently defines the industry.