Film Theory

Interactive study guide for Exam #1
Applying our film theory to “Cats”
Hungry for the hyperreal? Eat here.

Interactive images for the study of semiotics

Click on the images below to see the “signs.”

A new “Myth Today” a la Barthes
Platoon poster
Midsommar conclusion

Overviews of major theoretical approaches

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Poststructuralism
Race, ethnicity, and film studies

Queer theory and film

The Video Essay

The last time I taught the course, I had the students create video essays. Turns out many enjoyed the project (as much as one can enjoy a school project), and a few encouraged me to keep the assignment in the class. Here’s the assignment particulars, and a link to the greatest video essay of all time, Orson Welles’ F is for Fake (1973).

The introduction of “F is for Fake”