Brusutti is knowledgeable about film theory, but her lectures can be dry. Textbook is tedious, but Unstuck ai helped me ace the papers. For a GE, it's manageable if you stay engaged.

The lectures consisted of watching films for the majority of the class time. She would go overtime often by 5-15 minutes. The lecture attendance isn't taken but sections with the TA are. She doesn't care if you walk out mid lecture. If you plan to skip lectures, I advise you do attend the ones closer to midterm and finals season.

Anna is a good and kind professor. I attended her seminar and I love her so much. I recommend all students to take her seminar. But her quiz in 46 is always out of study question.

She's a really nice lady and she has a lot of interesting things to say but everything she says is like a riddle and it's very confusing to follow her lectures. She talks like we are already supposed to know all of this stuff but some of us are new to film. Her quizzes are filled with all this terminology and concepts she never goes over in class.

Lecture was 3 hours and twice a week. It was very long and got tired easily, but it was worth going in to see the movies. Half was lecture and other half was for the movie. Some were online, but not all. The essays and the quizzes were extremely easy. She is extremely nice. The final was fair.

Took Brusutti's 46 and 169 classes last quarter; she was a wonderful lecturer for both. She made the course content interesting and was helpful to talk to when I had questions about the assignments. The writing is not too difficult is you engage with the concepts, not very tough. Would recommend her for both!

She graded literally one assignment of 6 throughout the entire quarter and her feedback was incredibly confusing and her instructions on what she wanted were never clear. I would not say that this is a hard class, but it is extremely frustrating and you will not have any idea what your grade is until the day that the overall grade is due on Gold.

An introduction to key concepts in film and the industry. I have a background in film so I found the textbook (PDF) readings long and unengaging. Certain concepts from the textbooks will be on exams, but they are discussed in section. If you take notes during lecture and do the readings it's fine.

8/10 class. AREA F and WRT. Two papers each worth 20%. The topics are obscure, but you're free to use Chat GPT so they're both easy. There's a group project worth 30%, and an in person written final also 30%. Neither were put in the gradebook, so grades a mystery till the end. Lectures=a movie, but she never takes attendance so basically optional.

She isn't the most tech-savvy, and slides can be pretty disorganized/misleading, but Brusutti is such a sweet lady and to even criticize her hurts me. You can tell she's passionate about the material. Only 2 papers, short multiple choice P/NP quizzes, and a written open-note final. If you love film this works as a decent GE.

You will not learn anything from Brusutti's lectures. She is so boring and genuinely the most disorganized professor I've ever had. Not worth taking if you aren't a film major. If you want to do well talk to your TA cause they're the ones grading your papers. If you're a film major this WONT prepare you for FAMST96.

Literally the most boring and useless class I have ever taken. The only reason I go to class is to watch the films because I know I won't watch them on my own time. Lecture material is useless and she's extremely unorganized. No need to even take notes. Only upside to this class is that its really easy and if you watch the films you'll be chillin.

The class was fine overall. Not too difficult, two papers and an online final. The paper aren't hard, just took some times.

Three papers, lectures were fine but she is knowledgeable about film theory and the information she gives is very easy to digest. The films shown can be a drag but otherwise it was a fine class.

The material isn't super riveting, but as a FAMST requirement, 46 is a pretty easy start. The lectures can drone on but the readings aren't necessary at all. A couple of papers that aren't terrible and the final is online. Anna is pretty engaging and very respected.

Very boring lecturer and the class provided nothing but a credit. If you're a Film and Media Studies major you already know everything this class is meant to teach you. The lectures were LONG and Brusutti did nothing to make them interesting. The screenings were also awful - INSANE recency bias.

Okay, brace yourself. The main problem with this class is the textbook it refers to, 'Film Art' by Bordwell and Thompson. The WHOLE syllabus is structured around this book AND THE BOOK SUCKS. You WILL lose it. Anna is clearly very passionate in her subject but yeah, no, I would never take this class again.

This was some awful grading, basically 4 short essays over the class, on each she said she wanted more, but never elaborated. And when I continued to spend more time and effort on the essays, I still got like 85% and the same feedback. The criteria was vague as hell and the feedback was severely lacking. Really disappointing after aFAMST46

This class was fairly easy, two papers, a short quiz instead of a full midterm, and a written final. It sounds like a lot of writing but the papers honestly write themselves. The lectures are very interesting, you don't really need to take notes, just listen. You also don't need to do the readings. The films shown were all fairly good and relevant.

So many people skip class, which you could probably get away with, but I honestly think Brusutti gets a bad rap. She is disorganized with slides and whatnot, and the reading is pretty much unnecessary, but lectures are still pretty good if you're interested in film. If you are not extremely interested in film analysis don't take this as a GE

watch 2 films per week right after lecture. lots of readings, but you dont need to do them-she'll mention the important ones in lec. shes very sweet and excited about film noir so her lectures are not boring. 2 papers + short written final, 1 quiz on films 1 on readings. everything take home. really fair and would def take another class of hers

Prof. Brusutti was a great lecturer; at times it could get a bit dense, especially with the more technical and conceptual topics, but her lectures about the films and genres themselves were super interesting, & her choice of films for this quarter was great. Although there was a lot of work involved, if you were motivated enough it wasn't too bad.

Brusutti clearly loves film, but her lectures are long, boring, frustrating, painful, and EXTREMELY unorganized (and the posted lecture slides offer absolutely no clarity). So much assigned reading that is unnecessary and you don't have to do get a good grade. Paper prompts were incomprehensible too. Don't take if you're not a film major.

If you are not/do not want to be a film major, this is NOT the class for you. It's simply not worth the effort. Brusutti's lectures are painful and do not help at all when it comes to the content on the two quizzes for the course. The assigned reading is also quite a bit. I didn't do a lot of it but I'd say just go to section and you can do well!