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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 15327
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 1:00pm - 3:29pm
This course will focus on the development of film art, technology, and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Art
135 001 | CCN: 13348
Instructor: Kaitlin C Forcier
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, W 10:00am - 12:29pm
This course is a survey of the history and aesthetics of experimental and alternative media forms and practices situating them in relation to the larger art historical, social and intellectual contexts from which they arise. ... More -
Media Technologies – Immersive Media
155 001 | CCN: 13370
Instructor: Harry Burson
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 4:00pm - 6:29pm
This course will explore the history and theory immersion in digital media. With the emergence of Virtual Reality technologies in the 1980s, designers and programmers posited a new ideal of immersive media: a perceptually overwhelming experience in... More -
Be/longings: Cinema and the Immigrant Experience in America – Be/Longings: Cinema and the Immigrant Experience in California
170AC 001 | CCN: 14302
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 1:00pm - 4:59pm
This course examines contemporary scholarship and films about the migrant or immigrant experience in the US, with a focus on how they visualize and narrativize the idea of belonging. Our first week will be an “orientation” week... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – Animation
171 001 | CCN: 15331
Instructor: Pamela Leandra Weidman
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 10:00am - 12:29pm
This course will think about what it means to be animated. Animation can refer to a specific kind of film—such as the cartoon—and it is also used to describe a way of being in the world, often... More -
Pitch to Production
176 001 | CCN: 13351
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, W 9:00am - 11:59am
Students are introduced to the basic concepts, terms and principles of producing so that they can effectively and efficiently develop their own project proposal and financial strategy. Unit topics include creating a “pitch” proposal/package, methods of fundraising/financing... More -
Entertainment Law
177 001 | CCN: 14303
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W, F 5:30pm - 8:29pm
The practice of entertainment law in the United States lies at the intersection of a number of legal disciplines, among them Constitutional law, tort law, copyright law, and trademark law, and applies those disciplines to the world... More -
Film & Media Professions
178 001 | CCN: 13353
Instructor: Brett Fallentine
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 1:00pm - 3:29pm
This course is designed to acquaint film majors with a variety of professions in and around the Bay Area that are open to those wishing to pursue careers in film and media. A series of ten guest... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 14140
Instructor: Caleb Christopher Murray-Bozeman
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 1:00pm - 3:29pm
This course is intended to introduce undergraduates to the study of a range of media, including photography, film, television, video, and print and digital media. The course will focus on questions of medium “specificity” or the key... More -
Television Studies – Television and the American Family
45 001 | CCN: 15328
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 9:00am - 11:29am
This course introduces students to the field of television studies and focuses on developing skills in three areas: formal analysis, ideology critique, and genre study. Our first unit focuses on texts that describe and model these three... More -
Introduction to Moving Image Production
85 001 | CCN: 15329
Instructor: Lázaro Gonzalez
Location: Dwinelle 30
Date and Time: TU, W, TH 1:00pm - 3:59pm
Introduction to Moving Image Production will provide a basic technical foundation for digital media production while emphasizing the techniques and languages of creative moving image media from traditional story genres to more contemporary experimental forms. Training will... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Pinning Down the Real
R1A 001 | CCN: 15482
Instructor: Matteo Cavelier Riccardi
Location: Dwinelle 233
Date and Time: M, W, F 3:00pm - 5:29pm
Realism is a ubiquitous term in both 20th century film and literature. But what does the “real” in realism actually mean, and to what extent can it be traced to a specific filmic practice? This class will... More