EN 380 - The History of Narrative Cinema

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: EN 101 , one EN 200-level core course. An exploration of the origins and development of narrative film, covering the technology of the moving image from sixteenth-century flipbooks to contemporary digital media. Focus is on cinema's importance as a storytelling medium and includes investigation of narrative genres, national film movements, the influence of the classical Hollywood style, and related topics. IF