3 courses with the subject MEDA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
A basic overview of the historical development of film with an emphasis upon the aesthetic elements of cinema, its particular terminology and interrelationships with other arts. Students will discover how to read films through selected readings, screenings and written reports.
Introduction to the development of film genres and the traditions associated with special types of storytelling with attention given to formal analysis. This course examines the film industry including the people who made movies and those who censored them. There will be an introduction to ethnicity, social classes, along with human sexuality and gender as presented in movies from its earliest years along with the basics of writing about film.
This course is the study of the filmic vocabulary and techniques. It includes the interpretation of the film frame, editing strategies, and the formalists and realist codes of cinematic expression and the poetics of film while considering cultural and directorial variations.
Source: Mercy University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
