Starting with famous American trends in the crime film, this course will examine many of the classic and recent examples in International Crime Cinema, tracing historical and ongoing connections between different national movie traditions
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Discover how to 'read' films, not just watch them. Learn how editing, sound, lighting and framing create meaning, and explore how critics decode cinema’s hidden language in this engaging, hands-on introduction to film theory and analysis.
Study the distinctive cinema of David Lynch during this summer course. Through screenings and critical discussion, examine how surreal imagery, sound, dream-logic and Americana shape mood, narrative meaning, and the unsettling aesthetics of the uncanny.
Examine Hitchcock’s impact on film language in this one-week course. Through screenings and critical discussion, study how his use of editing, sound, colour and narrative design shaped modern cinema and established new aesthetics of suspense.
Explore Rome through the lens of two iconic Italian films, Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960) and Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (2013). Through lectures and workshops, students will learn about Italian culture while practicing their Italian.
Explore how British cinema mirrors the UK’s evolving identity, from period dramas to blockbusters. Discover the business and cultural forces shaping Britain’s film industry while reflecting on Oxford as a beloved filming location for British classics.
A course for film fans. We will introduce you to film studies by exploring the work of the greatest directors, cinematographers and actors. We will look at the history of Hollywood, and the classical film style it established.
This beginners' course will provide a solid introduction to some of the key concepts in film theory. Students will deepen their knowledge of the medium and develop their critical thinking skills through close analysis of films and individual sequences.
An introduction to the western horror film. Discover the reasons for the genre’s continued popularity and its ability to explore anxieties about existential and social identities.
Learn to tell powerful stories for screen. Combining critical film theory with practical screenwriting, this course explores how meaning is made in cinema and TV through film analysis and writing your own screenplay samples.
A beginners' course introducing a range of concepts for those with an interest in cinema but with little/no experience of film analysis or critical film theory. Classes will be focused around 'Memento', 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'Mulholland Drive'.