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History of Film and Media Theory
Film 100 | CCN: 31675
Instructor: Miryam Sas
Date and Time: MW 330-5P, 142 DWINELLE
What makes cinema compelling? What kinds of work are involved in watching films, and what kinds of pleasure? How does the experience of cinema shape perceptions about gender, sexuality, race, and the social world? ... More -
Gothic Horror Film
Film 108 Section 001 | CCN: 31702
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: CANCELLED
Because it is notoriously difficult even to define the term “Gothic,” or to describe its complex history as an aesthetic form involving architecture, “high” literature and popular fiction, painting, opera, theater, cinema, television, gaming, and fashion, we... More -
East Asian Horror Cinema
Film 108 Section 002 | CCN: 31708
Instructor: Daniel O'Neill
Date and Time: TUTH 2-330P, 142 DWINELLE
We will explore the cinematic style of East Asian horror cinema from a transnational perspective, its power to provoke and disturb, in light of issues such as spectatorship, the fantastic and the uncanny, and the trauma of... More -
History of Avant-Garde Film
Film 129 | CCN: 31720
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
Date and Time: TH 4-5P, 251 DWINELLE
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Stardom and Cinema
Film 140 Section 001 | CCN: 31732
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: F 10-1P, 142 DWINELLE
In her introduction to the book-length collection of essays entitled Stardom: Industry of Desire, Christine Gledhill describes the complex role of media stars “in the production, circulation, and negotiation of meanings, identities, desires and ideologies” that we... More -
Feminist Film Theory
Film 140 Section 002 | CCN: 31735
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: MW 11-1230P, 188 DWINELLE
This course provides a survey of feminist film theory. Moving from psychoanalytic criticism through interventions from cultural studies and queer theory, we will cover feminist media scholars’ analyses of authorship, genre, spectatorship, and stardom in the cinema.... More -
Disney and Pixar
Film 151 Section 001 | CCN: 31735
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: CANCELLED
As Paul Wells notes in Animation: Genre and Authorship, Walt Disney is the “key pioneering figure in the creation of the art, commerce and industry of animation.” Part of Disney’s pioneering includes his challenge to the standard... More -
The Auteurity of Italian Cinema
Film 151 Section 002 | CCN: 31747
Date and Time: M 330-6P, 188 DWINELLE
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Contemporary Chinese Film Auteurs
Film 151 Section 003 | CCN: 31753
Instructor: Weihong Bao
Date and Time: M 6-9P, 188 DWINELLE
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 Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar Wai, etc.) situated... More -
Geek Auteurs: Abrams, Whedon
Film 151 Section 004 | CCN: 31759
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: CANCELLED
This course examines the auteur status of two writer-producer-directors whose careers span the late 20th and early 21st centuries, blend and revise generic categories, and jump across media platforms. J. J. Abrams and Joss Whedon function as... More -
National Cinema, Narrative and Performance: Imposter Tales (in German Literature and Film)
Film 160 | CCN: 31764
Instructor: Deniz Göktürk
Date and Time: TUTH 330-5P, 2030 VALLEY LSB
This course will focus on imposter tales in literature and cinema, analyzing staging and performance of social roles and national identities across multiple media and genres. Based on classic tales of “clothes make the man” from Andersen... More -
Beginning Screenwriting
Film 180A | CCN: 31765
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: TU 5-7P, 188 DWINELLE
Explores the art and craft of writing a feature length, narrative screenplay. Each student pitches three story ideas, chooses on concept to develop into an outline and then completes the first act of the script. ... More -
Advanced Screenwriting
Film 180B | CCN: 31768
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: M 9-12P, 226 DWINELLE
In a workshop setting students explores the art and craft of writing a feature length narrative screenplay. Writers workshop detailed script outlines and then develop that material into a screenplay. New work is presented weekly.... More -
Field Study at the Pacific Film Archive
Film 197A | CCN: 31798
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Date and Time: TU 10-11A, BERK ART MUS
Students will learn about film bibliography and research materials. Interns will get a thorough orientation to the Pacific Film Archive library through introductory lectures and training sessions. Then, for three hours per week, they will help organize... More -
Field Studies for Majors
Film 197B | CCN: 31798
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Film Majors in good standing who have a 3.0 GPA, and have completed 60 units of credit can create an external professional internship that relates to their film and media studies for course credit. Internships must be... More -
The History of Film (Part 1)
Film 25A | CCN: 31651
Instructor: Mark Sandberg
Date and Time: W 6-9P, 188 DWINELLE
This course provides an analytic overview of the narrative cinema as an emergent art form and social phenomenon from its late nineteenth-century origins to its mid-twentieth century consolidation and cultural dominance. We will focus on the rise... More -
Moving Image Media Production
Film 26 | CCN: 31657
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Date and Time: F 9-12P, 30 DWINELLE
The objective of this class is to provide the basic technical foundation necessary for creative digital film production while emphasizing the techniques and languages of creative moving image media. The course is designed to give a... More -
Focus on the Narrative Short
Film C185 | CCN: 31771
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: M 1-4P, 226 DWINELLE
This hands on course explores the process of making narrative shorts using digital video production. Students will write, pre-visualize, direct and edit three short films and crew on an additional six class projects. Scripts and... More -
The Craft of Writing: Cinema, Constrained
Film R1A Section 001 | CCN: 31603
Instructor: P. G. Ellis
Date and Time: MW 4-530P, 229 DWINELLE
“Rules themselves create fictions.” —Roger Caillois Characterized as a “stunt” by the director, Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) used long takes and obscured cuts to produce what appeared to many contemporaneous writers to be a single, seamless shot. This experiment... More -
The Craft of Writing
Film R1A Section 003 | CCN: 31615
Date and Time: TU 7-9P, 215 DWINELLE
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The Craft of Writing: When Reality is Pushed Up to 11: The Mockumentary and the Documentary Problem
Film R1A Section 004 | CCN: 31621
Instructor: Fareed Ben-Youssef and Jennifer Blaylock
Date and Time: TU 7-9P, 109 DWINELLE
How are arguments formed and what is rhetoric’s role in lending them credence? This is a crucial question for first-time college writers and for the study of documentary film. However, our course approaches this question by focusing... More -
The Craft of Writing
Film R1B Section 001 | CCN: 31627
Date and Time: MWF 1-2P, 109 DWINELLE
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The Craft of Writing
Film R1B Section 002 | CCN: 31630
Instructor: Justin Vaccaro
Date and Time: MW 4-530P, 156 DWINELLE
This course fulfills the second part of the Reading and Composition requirement. We will continue to work on writing analytical, argumentative papers but with an added emphasis on research. This means both doing research – from generating... More -
The Craft of Writing
Film R1B Section 003 | CCN: 31633
Date and Time: TU 7-9P, 209 DWINELLE
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