Film: Theory, History and Criticism

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.” — Alfred Hitchcock

Since its appearance toward the latter years of the nineteenth century, film and its offspring (television, computer-generated video, and video games) have had a greater impact on humanity than any other art form. This course examines film as an art that comes close to fulfilling one of art's oldest goals: entertaining an audience with the closest possible approximation to reality — and the troubling questions that raises about the line between virtual reality and reality itself.