Topic Index
The following topics will be covered through 30-36 weekly lessons.
- A Christian Approach to Motion Pictures
- Justification / Need for Cinema Literacy for Christians
- Mechanics and Perception of Cinema / Approaching Cinema as Illusion
- History of Cinema
- Evolution of Cinema Prior To “Motion Pictures” / Pre-Cinema History
- Conversion from Pre-Cinema to Cinema
- Early Cinema History / Pioneers And Their Cinematic Influence
- Identifying A Grammar Of Cinema
- Who We See As Audience / Realism / Formalism
- What We See As Audience / Mise-en-scène
- How We See As Audience / Cinematography
- What We Hear As Audience / Sound Design
- How We Construct Cinematic Reality As Audience / Editing
- Identifying A Logic Of Cinema
- Critiquing The Argument of a Film
- Recognizing Worldview / Introduction to Major Film Theories
- Identifying A Rhetoric of Cinema
- Applying Cinema Literacy as Audience
- Applying Cinema Literacy As Artist