Film Department Sponsors Master Class with Famous Silent Film Composer Donald Sosin

Jun 11, 2018
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
Visting Professor – Ellen Rae Spiro from the Dept of Radio-TV-Film at Univ Texas

Dec 11, 2017
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
Pre-Approved Extra-Departmental Undergraduate Film Elective Courses for Spring 2018
Oct 23, 2017
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
Film & Media Departmental Statement on the DACA Decision

Sep 6, 2017
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.
Commencement 2017

May 11, 2017
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!
Pre-Approved Extra-Departmental Undergraduate Film Elective Courses for Fall 2017
Apr 25, 2017
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French 265A: I Confess: Self-Narration and Self-Representation from the Novel to New Media

Apr 24, 2017
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.
Summer 2017 Courses – Enroll Today!

Feb 13, 2017
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
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
Approved Extra-Departmental Film Elective Courses – Spring 2017
Jan 3, 2017
The following courses have been approved to count for upper-division elective credit in the Film Studies major for Spring 2017. Please visit their respective department websites for course descriptions and further information.
AFRICAM 142AC – Race in American Film
ARMENI 126 – Armenian Culture and Film
EALANG 105 – Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film
ETHSTD 122AC – Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary American Films
FRENCH 140D: An Introduction to the Films of the French New Wave
FRENCH 178B – Studies in French Film
GERMAN 182 – German Cinema in Exile
ITALIAN 170 – The Italian Cinema: History, Genres, Authors
JAPAN 188 – Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to Anime
KOREAN 187 – History and Memory in Korean Cinema
NESTUD 165 – Film and Fiction of Iran
RHETOR 131T – Genre in Film and Literature
RHETOR 135T – Selected Topics in Film (Color Theory)
RHETOR 189.3 – Special Topics in Rhetoric (Television Storytelling: The Poetics of Complex TV Narratives)
SLAVIC 138 – Topics in Russian and Soviet Film
If you would like to petition for another course to be added to this list, please submit your requests to undergraduate major advisor Blaine Jones at blainejones@berkeley.edu. You MUST include the following: course description, course syllabus, and the number of units. Courses under 4 units will not be approved for upper-division electives.