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Identify the conventions of several film genres, including their narrative structure, character types, setting, themes, style, and iconography.
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Analyze how genres evolve and are identified.
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Connect shifts in popularity and the evolving conventions of certain genres over time to cultural changes in society.
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Use critical thinking to apply key principles of film theory and criticism to specific films in written work and presentations, using concepts such as social-political-moral subtext, cultural ideology, genre as mythology, and representations of gender, race, nation, and violence.
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Apply, in writing, how course elements relate to films screened and explored in class.
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Analyze the role of film as a reflection of our culture, as well as its impact on our society.