Art of the Moving Image (FMS-0001)

Fall 2026 · 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: 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, as well as what is artistically distinctive about television. Theoretical concepts relevant to moving image art, principally genre, authorship, and character identification.

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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