Tico Romao
Contact
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- tico@ualberta.ca
Courses
DRAMA 307 - Studies in Drama I
Prerequisite: consent of Department.
FS 100 - Introduction to Film Study
Introduction to basic formal concepts in film analysis including mise-en-scène, cinematographic properties, editing, and sound, as well as narrative qualities.
FS 215 - Introduction to Film Theory
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.
FS 317 - The Gangster Film
Survey of the Hollywood gangster film and related forms from the 1930s to the present. Prerequisite: FS 100.
FS 318 - Science Fiction Film
A study of the Science Fiction film genre as an imaginative displacement of social and cultural concerns that define the context in which the films emerge. Prerequisite: FS 100.
FS 399 - Special Topics in Film Studies
Prerequisite: FS 100.
WRITE 399 - Projects in Genre
Lectures and workshops emphasizing innovations across genres and/or specialized writing forms. Note: variable content course which may be repeated. Prerequisite: 200-level WRITE course unless waived by Instructor; a minimum grade of B+ in the prerequisite course is strongly recommended.