MCS 148: Bodies in Motion: Cinema as Choreography

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; screening, 3 hours

Catalog page 498

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor

Description: Introduction of cinema as a kind of choreography. Examines how it sets bodies in motion both on and in front of the screen. Considers some of the ways bodily movement was understood philosophically, scientifically, and bureaucratically at the moment cinema emerged.

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