ART 245 Great Directors

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This course introduces students to a selection of film directors deemed important to film history. It will consider how the selected directors are important to film history, theory, and aesthetics, and will explore issues at the heart of authorship studies, including what it means to be the author of a film, how canons of film masterpieces come into being, and what cultural, economic, political, and other conditions help promote the notion of great directors.