The subject offers a broad introduction to film studies by concentrating on some key historical moments in film-making together with some of the main theoretical issues and debates that have defined film studies as an area of intellectual interest. Issues discussed in any given semester are chosen from the following topics: Hollywood cinema (old and new), star, genre, authorship, style, narrative, mise en scène, spectatorship, politics, historical contexts, race, sexuality, gender, notions of camp and cult, queer cinema, early/silent cinema, nations and national cinemas, nation-period-style (e.g. 1930s French poetic realism, 1940s American film noir, 1940s/1950s Italian neo-realism, 1950s/1960s English social realism, 1960s French new wave, the New German Cinema, the New Australian cinema), the action film, independent cinema, avant-garde and documentary.

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