Course Content (Syllabus)
Cinema has been a powerful system not only for the production of art but also of ideology. It is a medium of construction, negotiation and reinvention of subjective and objective reality and desire, as well as of race, gender and class consciousness. This course introduces students to key texts of film theory that have addressed the medium of cinema and the question of ideology, initiating them to useful theoretical contexts such as those of critical theory, feminist theory, and apparatus theory in their intersection with film studies. It also invites students to study contemporary American films in the light of the studied theory, in order to understand the complex workings of ideology in cinematic representation.