Film and Genre

Film genre isn't just a shelving system, it's a lens for seeing how narrative conventions, star personas, directorial signatures, and audience expectations co-produce meaning, and that's the angle this seminar takes on contemporary cinema. You'll move through case studies and an academic writing workshop toward an article-length critical essay, building it up via a proposal, a presentation, and sustained engagement with theory on stardom, authorship, the gaze, and spectatorship. As a graduate seminar in Communication and Design, it's where you sharpen the analytical and publishable-writing skills that thesis work and further film scholarship rest on.