This course is an aesthetic study of film. It examines the broad questions of form and content, aesthetics and meaning, and history and culture. Weekly film screenings will investigate the use of symbolism, characterization, imagery, and uses of realism and fantasy in motion pictures. Analysis of significant films will be in terms of thematic coherence, structural unity, technical achievement, and visual beauty. Topics include modes of production, narrative and non-narrative forms, visual design, editing, sound, genre, ideology and critical analysis. Also explored is how the film business influences cinema as an art form.