SW 621 - Film Genres

Credits: 4
Provides an introduction to the historical study of film through the lens of genre. This course highlights popular Hollywood media and endeavors to raise questions of film and media history while acknowledging that American genres have connections to other national media outputs. Genre study is one entry point into a discussion about film and media and how it has been written, produced, directed, and consumed through time and in place. There are many other ways to study media, but for the purposes of this course, genre will be the organizing principle. Special attention is paid to the evolution of genres from classical to modern, to anti-genre and genre across borders.