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2023-2024 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ARH 220 - Introduction to Film

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Charts film’s evolution from the 19th century to the present day, investigating narrative/genre, but also attending closely to developments in film technology. The course moves from pre-cinematic techniques of making images move, to the first sound films of the 1920s, to the color and widescreen spectacles of the mid-20th century, and finally, to computer-generated films of the digital age.
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