University of the Pacific

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The programs deals with film in the context of the liberal arts, with focus on the medium as an art form. It examines film as a ''text'' which can be studied through diverse critical and theoretical perspectives, including such approaches as Formalism, Neo-Historcism, psychoanalysis, gender theory, the mythopoetic and political/philopshical positions. Film is analyzed both from its technical aspects and its function as a cultural referent. It accomodates both high art and popular culture, both an international discourse and an individual auteurism.