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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 25951
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 8:00am - 9:29am
This course will focus on the development of film art, technology, and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... More -
Documentary Forms – Documentary Forms & Explorations
125 001 | CCN: 31997
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course surveys the history and theory of the art of Documentary Film. We will explore this constantly evolving practice by examining the ways its forms and aesthetics have changed since the beginning of cinema. We examine... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Art
135 001 | CCN: 25963
Instructor: Miryam B Sas
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 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 -
Global Media – Italian Cinema and the Ecological Imagination
145 001 | CCN: 31133
Instructor: Rhiannon N Welch
Location: Moffitt Library 103
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
Understood, variously, as magical, dreamlike, a ghostly projection, ‘writing with light,’ moving images often appear to us as an ephemeral, immaterial form. And yet, cinematic production, distribution, and consumption has always relied upon natural resource extraction, petrochemicals... More -
Special Topics in Film – Black Media and Poetics
170 001 | CCN: 25967
Instructor: Rizvana Bradley
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
Black Media and Poetics focuses on the relationships between black aesthetics and the ongoing redefinition and reinvention of media cultures. Poetics will be taken up, not as a specific literary form per se, but as a modality... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – That’s Entertainment! Analyzing the Film Musical
171 001 | CCN: 26218
Instructor: Dolores C Mcelroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
Students will become acquainted with a wide variety of different films in the musical genre, and will think through some theoretical issues inspired by the form. ... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – “Listen to Your Heart” –– The Politics of the Melodramatic Mode
171 002 | CCN: 33877
Instructor: Dolores C Mcelroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
“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 -
Introduction to Screenwriting – Beginning Screenwriting
180 001 | CCN: 23750
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 226
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 -
TV Writing – Television Writing
182 001 | CCN: 24919
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TH 9:00am - 11:59am
This intermediate screenwriting class 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... More -
Intermediate Moving Image Production
185 001 | CCN: 23749
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TU, TH 1:00pm - 3:59pm
This intermediate film production course explores the process of making narrative shorts. Students will write, pre-visualize, direct and edit three short films and act as cinematographer and assistant director for three of their classmates’ projects. ... More -
Intermediate Moving Image Production
185 002 | CCN: 31137
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: M, W 9:00am - 11:59am
This intermediate film production course explores the process of making alternative fiction, non-fiction, hybrid and experimental works that defy categorization. Students direct two short exercises and act as cinematographers and sound designers in two classmate’s projects. Throughout... More -
Documentary and Non-fiction Media Production
188 001 | CCN: 32901
Instructor: Jeffrey A. Skoller
Location: Dwinelle 30
Date and Time: M 1:00pm - 3:59pm
This workshop class focuses on practices and techniques of non-fiction digital filmmaking. Course work consists of a series of short image and sound exercises and then a final film project of your own design. The class examines... More -
Senior Seminar – Against Innovation
190 001 | CCN: 25972
Instructor: Jacob R Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: W 2:00pm - 4:59pm
Nearly all technologies we use today are the product of critical innovations that disrupted traditional industries to transform the world we live in. This is the story we tell ourselves about the history of technology, and the... More -
Advanced Film Writing
194 001 | CCN: 25973
Instructor: Mark B Sandberg, Lisa Wells Jacobson
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course alerts students to the conventions and standards of different forms of evaluative criticism, with special attention to the specific forms of film and television writing required in journalism, film festivals, film archives, and universities. What... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 21634
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
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 -
Film Aesthetics – Black Film and Visual Culture
30 001 | CCN: 25959
Instructor: Rizvana Bradley
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
Black Film and Visual Culture focuses on transatlantic black filmic and artistic movements, genres, and practices, with an eye towards situating their significance within the modern world. It addresses the politics, aesthetics, and historical conditions that continue... More -
Television Studies
45 001 | CCN: 25961
Instructor: Emily Catherine West
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course will focus on the industrial, technological, and aesthetic history of television. ... More -
Introduction to Moving Image Production
85 001 | CCN: 32899
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TU 9:00am - 11:59am
Introduction to Moving Image Production is an introductory course that establishes the basics of film language, and provides an overview of the technical processes of digital production. This course merges conceptual ideas and practical hands-on instruction to... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – On the Identity of Nations
R1A 001 | CCN: 21591
Instructor: Jonathan Daniel Mackris, Allyson Marie Unzicker
Location: Etcheverry 3109
Date and Time: M, W, F 1:00pm - 1:59pm
For a concept so formative to identity, it is striking how enigmatic the concept of nation remains. So significant is it, at least in principle, to the sense of self that it is often spoken of in... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 002 | CCN: 31129
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Film and the Art of the Con
R1A 003 | CCN: 32143
Instructor: James Stephan Boman
Location: Evans 31
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Filmmakers have always depended on sleights of hand. Perhaps for this reason, film narratives have often centered on characters who are themselves skilled deceivers. This course will explore cinema's long-standing affinity for trickster figures of all stripes... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Film and the Art of the Con
R1A 004 | CCN: 34018
Instructor: James Stephan Boman
Location: Dwinelle 247
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
Filmmakers have always depended on sleights of hand. Perhaps for this reason, film narratives have often centered on characters who are themselves skilled deceivers. This course will explore cinema's long-standing affinity for trickster figures of all stripes... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 001 | CCN: 24923
Instructor: Harry Burson
Location: Dwinelle 189
Date and Time: M, W, F 1:00pm - 1:59pm
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – The Digital Mundane
R1B 002 | CCN: 31131
Instructor: Annie Golda Felix
Location: Cory 237
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
Taking the personal computer user as its starting point, this course considers the ways in which digital technologies have seeped into everyday life. Thinking of this quotidian practice of using and living with computers as performance, we... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Identity and Film
R1B 003 | CCN: 32145
Instructor: Alina Predescu, Lázaro Gonzalez
Location: Wheeler 220
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
This course explores the expression and the representation of identity in film. We will study films that question established perceptions of identity through political modes of representation. These mostly non-narrative films (documentary and essay films) reveal people... More