Focuses on major international filmmakers who have had a decisive impact on world cinema. Students will learn how directors create their own innovative body of work with specific formal and thematic patterns, and will also learn to place such work within multiple frameworks that will cover film history, theory, aesthetics, philosophy, and social and cultural analysis. May be repeated up to 6 total credithours provided topics are different. Prereq., FILM 1502. Recommended prereqs., FILM 3051 and 3061. Restricted to FILM, FMST, ARTC majors. Same as ARTF 5023. Prerequisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) or Fine Arts - Creative Arts (ARTC) majors only.