This class will look at some of the ways in which contemporary film and media scholars engage some of the pressing issues in the history of film theory, including realism, medium specificity and intermediality, movement, space, politics, affect, historicity, the screen and other exhibition-related issues, the global and the national, and spectatorship. Requirements: completion of assigned weekly reading / viewing and full participation in seminar discussion; short writing assignments, in-class presentations, and final seminar paper (20 pages).