Ü/PS (Cult): Analyzing Film

This course is designed to familiarize students with the conceptual tools necessary for the analysis of film. Students will form groups to work through and give presentations on the history and theory of Hollywood cinema, the terminology with which to analyze cinematic techniques, as well as on analytical categories such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. The goal of the seminar is to equip students with the vocabulary as well as historical and theoretical background needed for the analysis of cinematography and the filmic constructions and representations of diverse social and cultural differences. 

The seminar will largely be based on the following book, of which copies will be made available through the SLUB: Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin. America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies. 3rd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. 

The course will include one session that introduces students to library research. 

This Übung/Proseminar begins in the first week of the semester.