Why don any of the film studies courses show films I ever heardof?
Good question. Our first answer is that you are getting a good value for your educational dollars. Our second answer is that the amazing world of new technologies has dramatically changed how film studies is conceived. You have the world of American film history at your fingertips in most videos stores, something most of your faculty didn’t have when they were in college. So our courses tend to program works that will expand your knowledge base and provide you with cinematic experiences that are unique. Our third answer is that hold on, you are only a first year student! We do indeed teach many courses where we screen films you “may have heard of before.” But be forewarned, even if you have seen Hitchcock, or Charles Burnett, or John Woo, or Pedro Almodovar, or Oliver Stone, you haven’t really SEEN them until you ANALYZE them in a film studies course. We like to turn film viewing inside out.
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