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In this course, we'll explore what's required for thoughtful, informed and engaging non-academic film criticism, including the obligation to understand both the historical and contemporary landscape of film, to write well and develop an individual voice, and even to entertain and connect with a readership.
Course Methodology: The course is run online, on Blackboard Collaborate, seminar style. Attendance is mandatory. Each week, the class will view films as indicated on the syllabus (DVDs are on reserve in. Clemons Library and readily available at most rental outlets). Students will be asked to.
Course objectives: Students will closely study all of Kubrick's films. The main objective of the course is to learn how to “read” film intelligently. To this end we will examine the history, production, and reception of the films of this director: how they work; how the filmmaker transmits in his films an understanding of the culture
This course addresses three distinct but related critical problems in the contemporary understanding of film and fiction. The most general is the question of how we might go about linking the practice of criticism in the literary arts with that of the screen arts.
Major Requirements. The bulk of your major must be completed in the Media Studies Department. You are allowed to take any practice of media course on our list. Your 4000 level course is a capstone course and must be a Media Studies course taught by a member of our faculty.
May 1, 2018 · University of Virginia drama faculty members Paul Wagner and Doug Grissom knew they loved teaching students to make films, but they wanted even more time than a single semester allowed.
Led by UVA Drama professor and noted playwright and screenwriter Doug Grissom and Academy Award-winning, Charlottesville-based filmmaker Paul Wagner, the course took eleven intrepid students through the entire filmmaking process, from concept to completion. Grissom took the reins for the first semester, focusing on concept development ...
