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| 0851-9871-01 | Recent Look On "classic" Theories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
This graduate seminar will focus on contemporary research on cinema, television, and new media, and related fields. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in “classical” theorists. We have rediscovered the contexts and modalities in which these thinkers, who did not necessarily intend to create “classical theory,” wrote, as well as new connections to our current state, sometimes through neglected or unknown works. During the first part of the seminar, we will deal with this surprising interest in these distant works. We will ask how classical film theory can be addressed today. In what ways do we understand the construction of the discipline and “theory” and its genealogies? Is “film theory” merely a historical discipline? The reading material in the second part of the seminar will be chosen by the students and instructor from journals and books published over the last decade (and significant references within these publications) that could serve the graduate students in their research.