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COMM 321
Film Culture

Credit: 3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Western Compartv Cult course.

(COMM 221) Introduces students to key issues of, major theoretical approaches to, and current debates about the cultural function of films. Course addresses theories of spectatorship, the politics of pleasure, the culture of entertainment, and the cinematic construction of race, class, and gender.