Art of the Moving Image - First-year and Sophomore (FMS-0001)

Spring 2024 · FMS 0001 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Exploration of cinema's basic aesthetic characteristics: its stylistic features, such as editing, cinematography, and sound, as well as its major narrative and non-narrative forms. Screenings include a variety of films from the US and abroad that exemplify cinema's myriad forms and styles: mainstream and avant-garde, fiction and non-fiction, narrative and non-narrative, black-and-white and color, silent and sound. Discussion of the extent to which cinema's aesthetic features are shared by television and interactive media such as video games, as well as what is artistically distinctive about these newer moving image media.

Course codes: FMS-0001, FMS 0001, FMS0001, FMS-1, FMS 1, FMS1, ILVS-0051, ILVS 0051, ILVS0051, ILVS-51, ILVS 51, ILVS51, TPS-0020, TPS 0020, TPS0020, TPS-20, TPS 20, TPS20

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