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Film History and Form
10 | CCN: 32146 | 32147
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: Tu/Th 9:30am-11am; Screening: W 12pm-3pm This course examines the history of cinema and the evolution of film form, beginning with the emergence of the moving image from the media environments... More -
Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 32146
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course examines the history of cinema and the evolution of film form, beginning with the emergence of the moving image from the media environments and visual cultures of the late 19th century and concluding with an... More -
Senior Capstone Seminar – Queer and Feminist Technologies
105 001 | CCN: 32176
Instructor: Jacob R Gaboury
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: W 2:00pm - 3:59pm
This course explores the intersection of queer and feminist theory, history, and identity with the culture of contemporary technology. The goal of the course is to interrogate those sites at which queer and feminist subjects have shaped... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Arts
135 | CCN: 32167 | 32168
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: Tu/Th 2:00pm-3:30pm; Screening: W 7pm-9pm This course approaches the idea of Avant-Garde Cinema as filmmaking without a safety net!; a risk taking approach to creative expression and a philosophical position... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Art
135 001 | CCN: 32167
Instructor: Jeffrey A. Skoller
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course approaches the idea of Avant-Garde Cinema as filmmaking without a safety net!; a risk taking approach to creative expression and a philosophical position that emphasizes Cinema as exploration and invention rather than as product and... More -
Special Topics in Film
140 001 | CCN: 32171
Instructor: Jeffrey A. Skoller
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
We are in a golden age of Documentary film! Never before has non-fiction cinema been more popular with audiences, more diverse in its subject matter or more innovative in its forms and technologies. This course takes an... More -
Global Media – Global Neorealism
145 | CCN: 33042 | 33043
Instructor: Rhiannon Welch
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: Tu/Th 12:30pm-2pm; Screening: W 5pm-7pm On-location shooting, shoestring budget, non-professional actors, and social commentary on the everyday struggles of the so-called ‘common man.’ These are among the hallmark elements of... More -
Global Media
145 101 | CCN: 33043
Instructor: Rhiannon N Welch
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: W 5:00pm - 6:59pm
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Special Topics in Film: Documentary Now! Explorations in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film & Media
170 | CCN: 32171 | 32172
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Lecture: Tu/Th 11am-12:30pm; Location: Dwinelle 188 Screening: Tu 5pm-7pm; Location: Dwinelle 188 We are in a golden age of Documentary film! Never before has non-fiction cinema been more popular with audiences, more diverse in its subject matter or more... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre: “Listen to Your Heart” – The Politics of the Melodramatic Mode
171 001 | CCN: 33175
Instructor: Dolores C Mcelroy
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
“Melodrama” is a contested term. In popular culture, it is often understood as pejorative: one might call something “melodramatic” in order to dismiss it as “over-the-top,” “extra,” or perhaps clichéd. In film studies, “melodrama” has often indicated... More -
Beginning Screenwriting
180 001 | CCN: 24218
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU 9:00am - 11:59am
Students explore the art and craft of developing and writing a feature-length, narrative screenplay. Each writer pitches story ideas, develops a plot outline and completes a portion of their screenplay. All students will workshop outlines... More -
Television Screenwriting
182 001 | CCN: 25946
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TH 9:00am - 11:59am
Film 182 explores the art and craft of developing and writing serialized narrative scripts. In the first half of the course students simulate the creative and collaborative process of a TV writers’ room by working together... More -
Documentary Production
184 | CCN: 32173 | 32174
Instructor: Andrea Bussman
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: W 9am-12pm; Lab: W 12pm-3pm Documentary film production is a semester long production course that will guide students through the process of making their own non-fiction films. We will emphasize... More -
Documentary and Nonfiction Film Production
184 101 | CCN: 32174
Instructor: Andrea MJ Bussmann
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: W 12:00pm - 2:59pm
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Focus on the Narrative Short
185 001 | CCN: 24217
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 1:00pm - 3:59pm
This hands-on digital video production course explores the process of making a narrative short. Students will write, pre-visualize, direct and edit three short films and crew on additional class projects. Scripts and cuts are presented in... More -
Special Topics: The Essay Film
187 001 | CCN: 32175
Instructor: Andrea MJ Bussmann
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: M 9:00am - 11:59am
This film production course will encourage students to visually express themselves by delving into a range of films and formal strategies that are expressed under the broad rubric of the essay film. The essayistic mode in... More -
Advanced Film Writing
194 001 | CCN: 32177
Instructor: Mark B Sandberg, Lisa Wells Jacobson
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: W 9:00am - 11:59am
Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities “Art of Writing” program /// How might one go about evaluating an audiovisual text solely using words? What issues arise in such an undertaking? Different forms of film and television... More -
Film & Media Theory
20 | CCN: 21844 | 21834
Instructor: Damon Young
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: MW 9:30am-11am; Screening: M 1pm-3pm This course introduces students to theories and methods in the scholarly study of audiovisual media, including photography, television, film, video, and digital media. Throughout the... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 21844
Instructor: Damon R. Young
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: M, W 9:30am - 10:59am
This course introduces students to theories and methods in the scholarly study of audiovisual media, including photography, television, film, video, and digital media. Throughout the semester, we will focus on questions of medium “specificity,” asking: what are... More -
Intro Digital Video Production
25 | CCN: 32159 | 32160
Instructor: Nico Pereda
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: F 9am-12pm; Lab: F 1pm-4pm The objective of this class is to provide a basic technical foundation for digital video film production while emphasizing the techniques and languages of creative... More -
Introduction to Digital Video Production
26 001 | CCN: 32159
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: F 9:00am - 11:59am
The objective of this class is to provide a basic technical foundation for digital video film production while emphasizing the techniques and languages of creative moving image media from traditional story genres to more contemporary experimental forms.... More -
Film Aesthetics
30 | CCN: 32162 | 32163
Instructor: 2019
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: Tu/Th 12:30pm-2pm; Screening: W 5pm-7pm ... More -
Film Aesthetics
30 001 | CCN: 32162
Instructor: Dolores C Mcelroy
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
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Television and American Culture / Television Studies
45 | CCN: 32164 | 32165
Instructor: Emily West
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: MW 11am-12:30pm; Screening: M 2pm-5pm This course introduces students to the history of television and its place in American culture, from the earliest days of broadcasting to the contemporary convergence... More -
Television Studies
45 001 | CCN: 32164
Instructor: Emily Catherine West
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: M, W 11:00am - 12:29pm
This course introduces students to the history of television and its place in American culture, from the earliest days of broadcasting to the contemporary convergence landscape. Course texts provide factual foundations in television history; critical frameworks for... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus / Media, Power, & Resistance
R1A - 001 | CCN: 21790 | 21791
Instructor: , Patrick Harrison
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: MW 5-6:30pm; Screening: W 6:30-8:30pm Media are the infrastructure of social life. In the digital age, more than ever before, the tools we use also use us: they condition the... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 001 | CCN: 21790
Instructor: , Patrick William Harrison
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
Media are the infrastructure of social life. In the digital age, more than ever before, the tools we use also use us: they condition the way we perceive, represent, think about, and relate to the world around... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 003 | CCN: 25953
Instructor: Jennifer Alpert
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
In an increasingly globalized world, conceptual frameworks of borders and our paradigms for defining cinema’s regional and cultural origin and belonging are becoming further problematized. Through the case study of Latin American film production (broadly conceived), this... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus / Across Borders: Latin American Representations, Migrations, and the Multicultural Experience in International/Global/Transnational Perspectives
R1A-003 | CCN: 25953 | 25954
Instructor: Jennifer Alpert
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: Tu/Th 11am-12:30pm; Screening: Th 5pm-8pm In an increasingly globalized world, conceptual frameworks of borders and our paradigms for defining cinema’s regional and cultural origin and belonging are becoming further problematized.... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B - 001 | CCN: 25957 | 25959
Instructor: TBA
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction Lecture: MW 5-6:30pm; Screening: W 6:30-8:30pm ... More