Hollywood is known for creating entertaining, accessible films. This course explores how Hollywood entertainment films have meanings beyond their plots. Students will learn how to analyze the totality of a film and its context, how a film tells its story as they explore the way directors use film form and film conventions to create films with multiple meanings, films that undermine their overt stories, films that critique film genres and star personae, films created out of other films, films that explicate philosophical ideas, and films that change meanings depending upon the culture and expectations of the audience.