Basic principles of generating creative concepts, dramatic structure, character and dialogue development, and formatting for stage and screenplays.

The heightened and sensitized perception that arises through studying film—an opportunity to slow things down, to take great care, to replay film moments that give rise to feelings—suggests how film can be a microcosm and model for how we learn and live. This iteration of Intro to Film, built specifically for Georgia Tech-Europe students, teaches the foundational elements of cinema (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound) through canonical examples of French and European films. Through embodied and cinematic experience that draws upon the region’s culture, students will have the opportunity to compare film—an art that combines space and time—with traveling.

Explores historical, cultural, and theoretical issues related by technologies of representation, including written, spoken, and gestural languages; print, painting and illustration; still and moving photography; recorded sound; and computer mediated communications and interactive digital media.

Examines the elements of fiction and what has made fiction, especially the novel, distinctive, popular, and enduring. Readings may include formal, cultural, and historical theories.

Examines science fiction texts from the last 200 years to show how they reflect ambigous reactions to change.

An in-depth investigation of a major movement, theory, period, or technological development in film studies.

Special Topics

This course investigates science fiction and fantasy as kin genres developed during film and televisual history as they have become highly popular forms of commercial audiovisual narrative.

This course examines animation from its earliest days as a "cinema of attractions' to its current development as a predominantly digital practice.

Connects building healthy Black communities and Black economic empowerment within the framework of contemporary documentary filmmaking. Students will write, produce, edit, and distribute a mini-documentary.