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Special Topics in Film: Romantic Comedy
108 | CCN: 31696
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: TUTH 930-11A, 188 DWINELLE
This class will investigate what makes romance — or cinema’s approximation thereof — funny: how and why comedy is one of the most popular genres or modes through which audiences consume romance narratives. This undertaking consists of... More -
The Avant-Garde Film
129 | CCN: 31708
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Date and Time: TUTH 2-330P, 142 DWINELLE
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all!”–Andre Breton Avant-garde film is a cinema of subversion, filled with challenging, unruly images and ideas that are often messy, sublime and like life itself, complicated! Avant-garde film is... More -
Special Topics in Film: Color Theory
140 - 001 | CCN: 31732
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: F 10-1P, 142 DWINELLE
In the introduction to Color: The Film Reader, Brian Price argues that until recently film studies scholars have suffered from “chromophobia,” neglecting to address in any comprehensive way “the centrality of color to the experience and technology... More -
Special Topics in Film: Outside the Box: Television and American Culture
140 - 002 | CCN: 31735
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: MW 11-1230P, 188 DWINELLE
This course offers an introduction to the history and criticism of television, from its emergence as a medium to its convergence with other programming platforms in the contemporary media landscape. Course materials will examine television’s role in... More -
Special Topics in Film: Italian Cinema
140 - 004 | CCN: 31744
Instructor: Sole Anatrone
Date and Time: MW 2-330P, 188 DWINELLE
Cowboys and mobsters, divas and immigrants, Hollywood and Cinecittà. Italy and the USA share a rich and complicated history that has frequently been the subject of both Italian and American cinema. Hollywood’s fascination with Italian mobsters and large... More -
Contemporary Chinese Film Auteurs
151 | CCN: 31755
Instructor: Weihong Bao
Date and Time: MW 11-1230P, 142 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 in... More -
Auteur Theory: Coen Brothers
151 | CCN: 31750
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: MW 930-11A, 188 DWINELLE
In this course we will examine the films of writer-director-producer team Joel and Ethan Coen in terms of the ways in which these films confirm, challenge, and provide insight into existing theories of film authorship. The Coens... More -
National Cinema: Japanese Cinema
160 | CCN: 31762
Instructor: Miryam Sas
Date and Time: TUTH 11-1230P, 188 DWINELLE
How does cinema convey meaning? How do the images and sounds of cinema shape the way we think about gender, about our place in the world, about who we are and where we came from, about what... More -
Beginning Screenwriting
180 | CCN: 31767
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: M 9-12P, 226 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. The class... More -
Advanced Screenwriting
180B | CCN: 31771
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: M 1-4P, 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. Discussion topics... More -
Digital Video
185 | CCN: 31773
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: TUTH 9-12P, 135 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 cuts are... More -
Film and Media Cultures
20 | CCN: 31641
Instructor: Damon Young
Date and Time: MW 930-11A, 142 DWINELLE
This course is designed to introduce undergraduates to the study of a range of media, including photography, film, television, video, and print and digital media. Throughout the semester, we will focus on questions of medium “specificity,” i.e.... More -
The History of Film (Silent Era)
25A | CCN: 31642
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
Date and Time: TUTH 930-11A, 142 DWINELLE
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The History of Film (Sound Era)
25B | CCN: 31648
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: MW 1230-2P, 188 DWINELLE
In this introductory survey course we will examine the history of cinema from the early sound film era circa 1935 through the international development of film as a transformative technology, art form, and commercial medium up to... More -
Moving Image Media
26 | CCN: 31654
Instructor: Greg Niemeyer
Date and Time: W 9-12P, 285 KROEBER
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The Craft of Writing
R1A - 003 | CCN: 31612
Instructor: Robert Alford and Chi Li
Date and Time: TUTH 330-5P, 109 DWINELLE
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The Craft of Writing
R1B - 001 | CCN: 31624
Instructor: Justin Vaccaro
Date and Time: TUTH 2-330P, 109 DWINELLE
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The Craft of Writing: Seeing Photographically
R1B - 002 | CCN: 31627
Instructor: Hannah Airriess and Jennifer Pranolo
Date and Time: MWF 1-2P, 109 DWINELLE
The technological “triumph” of photography, wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1859, lies in the feat of “making a sheet of paper reflect images like a mirror and hold them as a picture.” But as the medium moves... More -
The Craft of Writing: Genres, Major and Minor
R1B - 003 | CCN: 31630
Instructor: Patrick Ellis and Eliot Bessette
Date and Time: MW 4-530P, 156 DWINELLE
Any system we use for organizing things tells us much about ourselves and our things. Genres are one useful way of organizing films. Like any organizational system, genres can group items by shared features, help... More