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Global Media: Transmedial Asia
145 | CCN: 15206
Location: 188 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm
This course will focus on topics in national, transnational, and global cinema, television, photography, and/or new media. ... More -
Media Technologies
155 | CCN: 13489
Instructor: Caleb Murray-Bozeman
Location: 188 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 10am-12:30pm
This course will focus on the history, theory, and experience of old and new media technologies. ... More -
Special Topics in Film: Film and Labor
170-001 | CCN: 15479
Instructor: Sean Lambert
Date and Time: T, W, TH, 1-3:30pm
From 1895’s first ever film, Workers Leaving the Factory, to contemporary films like Sorry to Bother You, Atlantics and American Factory, cinema has long held a fascination for workers and labor. This fascination extends beyond the visual:... More -
Be/longing: Cinemas of Migration and Immigration
170AC | CCN: 15707
Instructor: Emily West
Location: 142 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm
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: Mockumentary
171-001 | CCN: 14467
Instructor: Osarugue Otebele
Location: 188 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 10am-12:30pm
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: California Noir
171-002 | CCN: 15482
Instructor: Miles Taylor
Location: 142 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 12:30-3pm
In this upper-division course, we will be looking at noir and neo-noir films set in California, paying special attention to the role of paranoia in these narratives. Tracing it back to the hardboiled detective novels of James... More -
Pitch to Production
176 | CCN: 13476
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Location: 142 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 9am-12pm
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 | CCN: 15609
Location: Online
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 3:30-5pm
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 | CCN: 13478
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm
This course is designed to give those interested in film and media careers an introduction to the wide range of professional possibilities that exist in the Bay Area and beyond. Centered around a series of 10–12 guest... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 | CCN: 15880
Instructor: Jonathan Mackris
Location: Online
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm
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 -
Film Aesthetics
30 | CCN: 15203
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: 188 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 2-4:30pm
This course will focus on topics in the history, theory and aesthetics of sound cinema. ... More -
Television Studies: Television and the American Family
45 | CCN: 14466
Instructor: Emily West
Location: 142 Dwinelle
Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 9-11:30am
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: 15918
Instructor: Lázaro Gonzalez
Location: Dwinelle 30
Date and Time: T, W, TH, 9am-4pm (Lecture: 9am-12pm; Lab: 1-4pm)
Under the principles of collaboration and “learning by doing,” this course 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