FILM 112
Film, Media, and Screen Cultures:
Theory & Practice
Winter 2025
Description
FILM 112 offers an introduction to theoretical and critical approaches to global time-based media, focusing on the theories of film and media. Students will learn to identify an array of cinematic elements (mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, , postcolonialism,) and apply such tools to the analysis of global time-based media. Students will pair these conversations with the process of creation, learning the production and circulation of time based-media in order to strengthen their own creative visual storytelling skills.
Intended Student Learning Outcomes
To complete this course students will demonstrate their ability to:
1. Apply the scope of theoreBcal and pracBcal approaches to fields of film, media, and screen cultures.
2. IdenBfy and apply cinemaBc language to analysis of global Bme-based media.
3. Deploy creaBve visual storytelling skills alongside theoreBcal comprehension.
4. Examine the historical, social, poliBcal, psychological, and cultural implicaBons of Bme-based media.
Email Policy
Each student will be assigned a TA, who will be in charge of questions about assignments, feedback, course content, and evaluation. You will meet your TA in tutorial where they will share their contact information. Note that your TA is not expected to answer emails after 5:00pm or on weekends, unless they so choose. Please wait 72 hours (excluding weekends) for your TA to respond before sending a follow-up email, or emailing the course coordinator. Questions regarding the FILM112 OnQ site can also be sent to the coordinator, available at [email protected]. Often if one student has a question, many other students do too. If a number of students have the same question, responses will be posted in the “Course Announcement” section of OnQ.
Students with accommodations should follow the instructions of Queen’s Accessibility Students (QSAS) and use the Ventus system to submit their accommodations. Please note that accommodations will not automatically be implemented to every assignment. If you would like to use your accommodations, like extra time, for a specific assignment, please email your TA and let them know. Additionally, any students who do not have formal accommodations but become sick and need to request either extra time or to address absences, please email your TA.
Please include the course code “FILM 112” in the subject title of course related emails.
Course Materials
Required Readings and Screenings
Bordwell, David, Kristin Thompson and Jeff Smith, Film Art: An Introduction. 13th ed.
Julian MacDougall, Media Studies: The Basics. 2nd ed.
Available in the Queen’s bookstore.
All screening materials will be available in class. Many of the films screened are not accessible online.
Technology Requirements
1. Web Browsers: onQ performs best when using the most recent version of the web browsers, Chrome or Firefox. Safari and Edge are strongly discouraged as these web browsers are known to cause issues with onQ.
2. Internet Speed: While wired internet connection is encouraged, we recognize that students may be relying on a wireless connection. A minimum download speed of 10 Mbps and up to 20 Mbps for multimedia is recommended. To test your internet speed: https://www.speedtest.net/
For technology support ranging from setting up your device, issues with onQ to installing software, contact ITS Support Centre: https://www.queensu.ca/its/itsc