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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 24342
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
This course will focus on the development of film art, technology, and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... More -
Documentary Forms
125 001 | CCN: 33638
Instructor: Caleb Christopher Murray-Bozeman
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
This course surveys the history, theory and practice of the documentary, aka “non-fiction” film and video. We will explore this term and examine the ways its forms and ethics have changed since the beginning of cinema. We... More -
Documentary Forms
125 002 | CCN: 31234
*Discussion section will not meet ... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Art – Game Art and Art Games
135 001 | CCN: 24352
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:00am - 10:29am
This class explores the relationship between video games and art, examining the ways both game makers and artists create game-based artwork through the lens of history, theory, and politics. In doing so we will examine a number... More -
Global Media – Italian Cinema and the Ecological Imagination
145 001 | CCN: 25866
Instructor: Rhiannon Welch
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
Understood, variously, as magical, dreamlike, a ghostly projection, ‘writing with light,’ moving images often appear to us as an ephemeral, immaterial form. And yet, cinematic production, distribution, and consumption have always relied upon natural resource extraction, petrochemicals... More -
Global Media – Global Queer Cinema
145 002 | CCN: 31237
Instructor: Iggy Cortez
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
This course explores how queer cinema is mutually articulated with the contested notion of the global. In what ways does queerness help us to imagine a different world order? And how might post-colonial critique, critical race theory... More -
Media Technologies – Cinema After Digitization
155 001 | CCN: 26615
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course will examine the influence of digital technology on contemporary film and visual media. Drawing on cinema studies, art history, architecture, and media studies we will historicize the radical shift brought about by digital technology while... More -
Special Topics in Film – Slow Cinema
170 001 | CCN: 24356
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 3:30pm - 4:59pm
In this course, we will consider how the concept of “slowness” can be a way of comprehending contemporary reality. Much has been written about how film as a medium shaped the sensorium of the modern spectator with... More -
Special Topics in Film
170 002 | CCN: 26190
Instructor: Jinsoo An
Location: Social Sciences Building 56
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
Selected topics in the study of film. ... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – Silent Film Comedy
171 001 | CCN: 24502
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course introduces students to silent film comedy from the 1890s to 1930s. Beginning with early Lumière and Porter short films in which film scholars have located the origins of both film comedy and film narrative, we... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre
171 002 | CCN: 26617
Instructor: Daniel Cuong O'Neill
Location: Dwinelle 209
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
The study of films as categorized either by industry-identified genres (westerns, horror films, musicals, film noir, etc.) or broader interpretive modes (melodrama, realism, fantasy, etc.). ... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – The Stylized, the Pretty, the Picturesque: On Ornamental Cinema
171 003 | CCN: 26339
Instructor: Annie Golda Felix
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 11:00am - 12:29pm
This class traces the genre of decorative or ornamental films over the course of the 20th century. Theorized variously as ‘hyper-stylized,’ ‘picturesque,’ or even as ‘pretty,’ these films are identified for their imagistic qualities, where meaning is... More -
Introduction to Screenwriting
180 001 | CCN: 23187
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TU 9:00am - 11:59am
Students explore the art and craft of developing and writing a feature-length, narrative screenplay. Each writer pitches story ideas, develops a plot outline and completes a portion of their screenplay. All students workshop outlines and... More -
TV Writing
182 001 | CCN: 23918
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TH 9:00am - 11:59am
This intermediate screenwriting class explores the art and craft of developing and writing serialized narrative scripts. In the first half of the course students simulate the creative and collaborative process of a TV writers’ room by... More -
Intermediate Moving Image Production – Focus on the Narrative Short
185 001 | CCN: 23186
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TU, TH 1:00pm - 3:59pm
This intermediate film production course explores the process of making narrative shorts. Students will write, pre-visualize, direct and edit three short films and act as cinematographer and assistant director for three of their classmates’ projects. ... More -
Intermediate Moving Image Production
185 002 | CCN: 25021
Instructor: Tijana Petrović
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:00am - 11:59am
This production course focuses on nonfiction filmmaking. The course will explore experimental approaches and methods that are pushing the form in new directions. We will explore durational, conceptual, sensory, poetic and speculative aspects of this vibrant and... More -
Special Topics in Media Production – Dreamwork and Creative Production
187 001 | CCN: 27384
Instructor: Nicole Starosielski
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: M, W 1:00pm - 3:59pm
This class is about dreaming: its theories, its media representations, and critically, its usefulness for your own creative work. Over the course of the semester, you will not only engage with dream theory—extending from Freud to current... More -
Documentary and Non-fiction Media Production
188 001 | CCN: 25253
Instructor: Tijana Petrović
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: M 9:00am - 11:59am
This course will introduce each student to the fundamentals of documentary filmmaking. Over the course of the semester students will complete several short exercises and will direct, shoot, and edit one final film in collaboration with a... More -
Advanced Film Writing
194 001 | CCN: 31261
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
How does one translate a cinematic experience into words? Different forms of film and television writing serve a variety of professional functions, engaging different audiences to different ends, but all writing about cinematic texts must grapple with... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 21527
Instructor: Damon R Young
Location: Berkeley Art Museum 1T75
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course introduces students to theories and methods in the scholarly study of audiovisual media, including photography, television, film, video, and digital media. Throughout the semester, we will focus on questions of medium “specificity,” asking: what are... More -
Film Aesthetics – Contemporary Experimental Interventions
30 001 | CCN: 24348
Instructor: Rizvana Bradley
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
Film 30: Film Aesthetics—Contemporary Experimental Interventions focuses on the practices of a diverse range of contemporary (post-1968) filmmakers. While these filmmakers are predominantly situated within the North Atlantic region, their filmic experimentations traverse black, indigenous, diasporic, feminist... More -
Television Studies
45 001 | CCN: 24350
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course introduces students to the history of television and its place in American culture, from the earliest days of broadcasting to the contemporary convergence landscape. Course texts provide factual foundations in television history; critical frameworks for... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 001 | CCN: 21496
Instructor: Morgan Jennings
Location: Social Sciences Building 50
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 002 | CCN: 25017
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 003 | CCN: 25112
Location: Social Sciences Building 50
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 004 | CCN: 26587
Location: Dwinelle 106
Date and Time: M, W 6:30pm - 7:59pm
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 001 | CCN: 23919
Location: Social Sciences Building 80
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 002 | CCN: 25019
Instructor: Isaac Arland Preiss
Location: Social Sciences Building 50
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 003 | CCN: 25114
Instructor: Miles Herbert Taylor
Location: Social Sciences Building 80
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 004 | CCN: 26591
Location: Dwinelle 206
Date and Time: M, W 6:30pm - 7:59pm
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More