Beth Capper, PhD

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

Fall Term 2026 (1970)

ENGL 578 - Film Studies

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

LECTURE A01 (56177)

2026-09-01 - 2026-12-08
W 15:00 - 17:50



FS 412 - Topics in Film Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, VARIABLE)

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

LAB D01 (57367)

2026-09-01 - 2026-12-08
W 18:00 - 20:30

SEMINAR A01 (57366)

2026-09-01 - 2026-12-08
W 15:00 - 17:50

Winter Term 2027 (1980)

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 (78418)

2027-01-04 - 2027-04-09
MWF 11:00 - 11:50

LAB H01 (75563)

2027-01-04 - 2027-04-09
R 15:00 - 17:20



FS 333 - Experimental Film

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

Avant-garde, abstract and structural film. The history and changing conceptions of experimental film, with examples from the silent era to the present. Prerequisite: FS 100.

LECTURE B01 (82341)

2027-01-04 - 2027-04-09
MWF 13:00 - 13:50

LAB H01 (82342)

2027-01-04 - 2027-04-09
F 18:00 - 20:30