In this course, we will introduce foundational concepts and forms of cinema, cutting across time, space, and genre. We’ll see and discuss ‘Westerns’, film noir, verite and neo-realism, documentary, the experimental and avant-garde, as well as contemporary art installations of moving images. Our discussions will traverse geography - America, the Soviet Union, Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa - method - structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic - as well as history - the long 20th century. We’ll also pay mind to techniques of making and viewing film.