Beth Capper, PhD

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
Directory

Fall Term 2025 (1930)

FS 399 - Special Topics in Film Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

Prerequisite: FS 100.

LECTURE A02 (58170)

2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
TR 14:00 - 15:20

LAB D02 (58171)

2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
T 15:30 - 17:50



MST 310 - Political Economy of Media

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Theoretical and cultural issues surrounding the political-economic structures, institutions, and power relations of media. Prerequisite: MST 100.

LECTURE A01 (56122)

2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
TR 09:30 - 10:50

Winter Term 2026 (1940)

ENGL 578 - Film Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

LECTURE B1 (88553)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
M 15:00 - 17:50



FS 215 - Introduction to Film Theory

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

General survey of major currents and debates in film theory, including early theories on the ontology of the film image, semiotic approaches to film as language, Marxist and psychoanalytic concepts of spectatorship and the film image, the intersections of film and ideology, and the phenomenological theory of film as an embodied experience. Prerequisite: FS 100.

LECTURE B01 (84296)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
TR 12:30 - 13:50



FS 412 - Topics in Film Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, VARIABLE)

A seminar-based examination of specialized topics in film. Prerequisite: FS 100.

SEMINAR B01 (84951)

2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
M 15:00 - 17:50