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Film Genre: Our Others, Our Selves: Race, Gender, and Technologies of the Body in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
108-001 | CCN: 22475
Instructor: Emily West
Mw 10:30am-12pm, Location: Dwinelle 142 Screening: W 2pm-4pm, Location: Dwinelle 142 Science fiction is a seemingly de-politicized but highly political genre, historically rooted in Western colonial expansion and directly expressive of imperialist desire and anxiety. This course aims to... More -
Film Genre: Film Noir
108-003 | CCN: 24213
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
Tu/Th 12:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 Screening: W 6pm-9pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 In this course we will analyze the category of films known as film noir. While these films appeared from roughly 1940 to 1958 in Hollywood, we will also... More -
Documentary
128 | CCN: 19769
Instructor: Natalia Brizuela
Tu/Th 2pm-3:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 142 Screening: W 7pm-10pm, Location: Dwinelle 142 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... More -
History of Avant-Garde Film
129 | CCN: 32101
Instructor: Althea Wasow
Tu/Th 11am-12:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 142 Screening: W 4pm-6pm, Location: Dwinelle 142 This course will introduce students to oppositional, alternative, and experimental filmmaking from the silent film period to contemporary digital media projects. Through close study of provocative—even “criminal”—films that... More -
Special Topics – DIVA! The Politics of the Female Voice Onscreen
140-001 | CCN: 19771
Instructor: 2019
MW 2pm-3:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 Screening: M 3:30pm-5:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 If we look to popular media, “diva” can mean just about anyone whose manner of self-presentation puts them on some imagined scale between self-confidence and out-and-out vanity. But there is... More -
The “New Wave” and Contemporary Chinese Film Auteurs
151 | CCN: 19772
Instructor: Weihong Bao
MW 9:30am-11am, Location: Dwinelle 188 Screening: W 11am-1pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 This course introduces Chinese film auteurs since the late 1970s across the geopolitical divides between Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will focus on individual film auteurs (Jia... More -
Berlin/Hollywood: Cinema and the Modern Experience
160 | CCN: 24327
Instructor: Anton Kaes
M 11am-2pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 Screening: Th 5pm-7pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 This course will focus on the cinema of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and discuss classics such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, and M, as well as... More -
Advanced Screenwriting
181 | CCN: 32104
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Thur, 9am-12pm Location: Dwinelle 226 Students explore the art and craft of writing screenplays and teleplays by either developing a feature-length narrative screenplay or a pilot for a serial show. Students participate in a writers room/workshop setting in order to present... More -
Advanced Digital Video
186 | CCN: 24243
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
TuTh, 1pm-4pm Location: Dwinelle 135/30 This hands-on workshop explores the collaborative process of making a narrative short using digital video production. Over the semester, each student will write, rewrite, pre-visualize, direct and edit one project, approximately 12 – 15... More -
Film & Media Cultures
20 | CCN: 22237
Instructor: Emily West
TuTh 9am-10:30am, Location: Dwinelle 188 Screening: Tu 10:30am-12:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 This course introduces students to ways of thinking about “film” and “media” – including print media, photography, film, and television – as cultural objects that not only carry... More -
History of Film I
25A-001 | CCN: 22239
Instructor: Emily West
MW 9am-10:30am, Location: Dwinelle 142 Screening: Tu 3:30pm-5:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 142 This course serves as an introduction to narrative cinema, from its 19th-century prehistory to its cultural life in the 1930s. We will consider the rise of early film... More -
History of Film II
25B-001 | CCN: 19767
Instructor: 2019
MW 12:30pm-2pm Location: Dwinelle 142 Screening: M 5:30pm-7:30pm Location: Dwinelle 142 ... More -
Introduction to Digital Video
26-001 | CCN: 24238
Instructor: Nico Pereda
M 9am-12pm Location: Dwinelle 135 Lab: W 9am-12pm Film 26, Moving Image Media Production, is an introduction to digital video production. This course provides a basic foundation for digital video production with hands-on instruction in the use of digital cameras, sound recording... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus: Perception, Prosthetics and Media
R1A-001 | CCN: 19755
MW 5pm-6:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 109 Screening: M 6:30pm-9:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 182 “I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to... More -
The Craft of Writing
R1A-002 | CCN: 23946
Instructor: Stephan Boman
TuTh 9:30am-11am Location: Dwinelle 109 Screening: Tu 5pm-8pm Location: Wheeler 200 ... More -
The Craft of Writing 2 – Film Focus: Technophilia/Technophobia: Anxieties about New Media
R1B-001 | CCN: 19757
Instructor: Morgan Jennings & Renée Pastel
Tu/Th 3:30pm-5pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 Screening: Tu 5:30pm-8:30pm, Location: Dwinelle 188 This course asks students to consider “new media” in a critical way. As a class, we will question what is “new” about new media by exploring... More -
The Craft of Writing 2 – Film Genres
R1B-002 | CCN: 19758
Instructor: Chi Li & Eliot Bessette
Tu/Th 3:30pm-5pm, Location: Dwinelle 109 Screening: Tu 6pm-9pm, Location: Wheeler 202 Cinema is built on genres. Genres are not deviations from the norm of filmmaking: they are the norm. Many of the critical-consensus best films, no matter the country... More -
The Craft of Writing 2
R1B-003 | CCN: 19759
Instructor: Jianqing Chen & Patrick Harrison
TuTh 12:30pm-2pm Location: Dwinelle 215 Screening: Tu 5pm-8pm Location: Moffitt 103 ... More -
The Craft of Writing 2
R1B-005 | CCN: 19761
Instructor: Stephan Boman
MWF 1pm-2pm, Location: Dwinelle 109 Screening: M 2pm-5pm, Location: Wheeler 202 ... More -
The Craft of Writing 2 – Film Focus: New Media Art
R1B-006 | CCN: 32832
Instructor: Lou Silhol-Macher
Tu/Th 12:30pm – 2:00pm, Location: Wheeler 126 Screening Tu 5pm – 8pm, Location: Barrows 80 In this class, our main goal will be to develop your writing, reading, and research techniques, in conjunction to your analytical skills. We will... More