Students choosing the Theater and Film Studies Focus receive a solid foundation in acting, directing, and theater leadership skills. To these foundational skills, film studies courses are added where students will study, examine, analyze, and evaluate: mise-en-scène, editing, sound, and narrative structure in film; the history of film from the birth of cinema to the present day; the grammar and language of film comparative to literature; genre theory and criticism; what makes a film a documentary; and film theories such as Marxism, feminism, reception and autuer. Students will be asked to produce two short films as part of this concentration, demonstrating an understanding of filmmaking techniques and cinematic language.