Film and Society

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: Explain how cinema represents life; Explain the need to censor cinema for social and political reasons; Explain how cinema can change the audience life; Explain methods of using cinema to influence audience.

Topics

This course engages students to look carefully on dialectic relation between cinema and its audience. At one hand, cinema represents the filmmakers and audiences’ society, because in films we can see their beliefs and values. On the other hand, cinema has power to strengthen and reform the community