This course focuses on the structure and functioning of audiovisual texts, resulting from a given context and based on a specific grammar. Therefore, the different elements of film grammar (mise-en-scène, framing, editing, sound) will be studied in detail and a wide range of audiovisual contents from different historical moments, countries, formats and genres will be analyzed. This course will be based on the analysis of audiovisual language in order to understand the discourses that circulate in our societies through the moving image. A critical thinking will be encouraged by raising awareness on how audiovisual contents are created.