Department of Film & Media UC Berkeley

Pre-Approved Film & Media Electives for Fall 2018

1) Italian 160 – Italy on screen’: Cinema, Politics and Modernity

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-italian-160-001-lec-001

2) Italian 170 – The Italian Cinema: History, Genres, Authors

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-italian-170-001-lec-001

3) French 43B – Aspects of French Culture – Intro to French Cinema

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-french-43b-001-lec-001

4) French 178A – Studies in French Film

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-french-178a-001-lec-001

5) Korean 187 – History and Memory in Korean Cinema

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-korean-187-001-lec-001

6) Japan 185 – Introduction to Japanese Cinema

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-japan-185-001-lec-001

7) English 165 – Literature and Media Theory

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-english-165-003-sem-003

8) Natamst 158 – Native Americans and the Cinema

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-natamst-158-001-lec-001

9) Rhetoric 130 – Novel into Film

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-rhetor-130-001-lec-001

10) Scandin 115 – Studies in Drama and Film – The films of Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-scandin-115-001-lec-001

11) English 173 – The Language and Literature of Films

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-english-173-001-lec-001

12) Anthro 138A – History and Theory of Ethnographic Film

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-anthro-138a-001-lec-001

13)  Mediast 111 – Media History

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-mediast-111-001-lec-001

14) Chicano 135A – Latino Narrative Film: to the 1980s

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-chicano-135a-001-lec-001

15) Art 171 – Digital Video: The Architecture of Time

http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2018-fall-art-171-001-lec-001

Donald Sosin, a famous composer and silent movie accompanist, held a master class on the unique art form at BAMPFA on Monday June 4th. The SF Chronicle wrote a great article on the event: phttps://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/From-behind-the-piano-an-eclectic-improviser-12977453.php

We are pleased to welcome Ellen Rae Spiro as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2018. She has been a Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas since 1998.

She is the recipient of numerous awards for documentary filmmaking, most notably for the film Body of War (2007), which won a festival award in Toronto, was nominated for a Producers Guild award, and won the National Board of Review award that year. The film was also short-listed for an Academy Award. Her film from the year before, Troop 1500, won a Gracie award, as did she for Best Director.

She also won an Emmy in 2004 for the film Are the Kids Alright? and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, multiple Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, and a Fulbright Fellowship.

Her documentaries have received feature treatment on media outlets such as the Bill Moyers show and This American Life.  

For more information about Professor Spiro check the link here: http://www.spirofilms.com/ 

*** She will be teaching our Film 184 course on Documentary Production in Spring 2018***

For more questions about this course contact her here:  spirovich@gmail.com

The following courses have been approved to count for upper-division elective credit in the Film Studies major for Spring 2018.

Please visit their respective department websites for course descriptions and further information. 

 

French 170 – CN:39629   (25 seats) 

French Films: Introduction to French Cinema 

French 141 – CN:39616   (40 seats)

French Studies in an International Context

France, Europe and the Refugee "Crisis": Explorations in Fiction and Film

Slavic 138 – CN:32173   (30 seats)

Topics in Russian and Soviet Film; Sergei Eisenstein

Rhetoric 131T – CN:29870 (17 seats)

Genre in Film & Literature: Western Noir

Rhetoric 132T – CN:40955 (17 seats)

Auteur in Film: The Films of the Coen Brothers 

English 173 – CN:38962   (40 seats)

The Language and Literature of Films (Post)colonial Film

GWS 126 – CN:39436   (50 seats) 

Film, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde

AfricAmSt 142AC – CN:21951   (138 seats)

Race and American Film 

Anthro 138B – CN:39639   (12 seats)

Field Production of Ethnographic Film

EthnicSt 122AC – CN:24203   (90 seats) 

Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary American Films

Italian 170 – CN:32137  (35 seats) 

The Italian Cinema: History, Genres, Authors

Korean 186 – CN:39292  (30 seats) 

Introduction to Korean Cinema 

Art 141 – CN: 323082 (17 opens seats) 

Temporal Structures: Video and Performance Art

Art 174 – CN:41461 (17 open seats)

Advanced Digital Video 

The faculty of the Department of Film & Media stands in support of our DACA (Dreamer) students and their families. Our department remains a welcoming place for all students. We are dismayed by the President's recent announcement that would end the DACA program in six months and support UC President Napolitano's call for a permanent solution that provides a secure path to citizenship. We will do all we can to support students in our classes and our program who are affected by the potential termination of the DACA program.

Congratulations to our graduates in the class of 2017!

Join us Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 at 2:00 pm in Zellerbach Hall for the commencement ceremony. Students, please make sure you have pre-purchased your guest tickets in the Film department office. 

Go Bears!

Damon Young, assistant professor in French and Film & Media, is teaching a graduate course in the French department this Fall 2017! This course will also count for Film graduate student credit – for details, please contact Prof. Young or Marcus Norman directly. 

French 265A: I Confess: Self-Narration and Self-Representation from the Novel to New Media

Is the “self” of Rousseau’s Confessions the same as the self of the 21st century digital selfie? To what extent is subjectivity bound up in the means of its technical mediation? This course stages an encounter between histories of autobiography, theories of the subject/subjectivation, and recent developments in media theory. We will ask how the “private self” of an earlier colonial modernity was given form in the novel and the autobiography, then explore how the invention of photography and film refashioned the subject as “ideally visible,” before considering how digital media cultures generate forms of subjectivity for which the defining imperative would no longer be confession but rather circulation. We will spend some time with Foucault’s discussions of the confessional imperative that situates sexuality at the opaque foundation of the modern subject, reading them in relation to critical commentaries on the production of the “I” in literature and philosophy (works by Butler, Paige, Lucey, De Man). We will explore the interrelation of medium, subjectivity, and apparatus in theoretical works by authors that might include Althusser, Deleuze, Debord, Derrida, Baudrillard, Stiegler, and/or Preciado. Throughout, we will draw on specific examples of autobiography and/or self-portraiture in various media forms. Taught in English, with texts available in French or English translation.

Check out our exciting course offerings for Summer 2017! Included are courses required for the major, upper-division film electives, a production course, and even a course for nonmajors.

Enrollment begins February 1st, 2017 through CalCentral for all UC Berkeley students.

Session A ||| May 22 – June 30

Film R1A: The Craft of Writing – Recording the Un-recorded: Folklore, Movie Monstrosities, and Global Community
Katherine Guerra

Film 20 – Film and Media Cultures
Alex Bush

Film 25A – History of Film: Silent Era
Emily Carpenter
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Session D ||| July 3 – August 11

Film 50 – Film for Nonmajors
Emily Carpenter

Film 108: Film Genre – Game of Thrones
Justin Vaccaro (caricatured above)

Film 129 – History of Avant-Garde Film
Eileen Jones

Film 187: Special Topics in Film Production – Intro to 16mm
David Borengasser and Colin Brant