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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 24760
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
This course will focus on the development of film art, technology, and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... More -
Documentary Forms
125 001 | CCN: 32329
Instructor: Deniz Göktürk
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course will focus on topics in documentary cinema, television, video, photography, and/or new media. ... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Art – History of Avant-Garde Film
135 001 | CCN: 24770
Instructor: Jeffrey A Skoller
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all!”–Andre Breton This class approaches the idea of Avant-Garde film as filmmaking without a safety net; a risk taking approach to creative expression that emphasizes filmmaking as exploration and... More -
Global Media – Global Neorealism
145 001 | CCN: 31377
Instructor: Laura E Ruberto
Location: Social Sciences Building 56
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
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 Italian neorealism—a body of films that emerged out of the literal and... More -
Special Topics in Film – Slow Cinema: Economies of Attention
170 001 | CCN: 24774
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
In this course, we will consider practices and theories of attention. How do we direct our focus? Which technologies and social forces––including cinema––shape and control our attention? Can cinema also be a way of retraining our attention... More -
Special Topics in Film – Attention and Distraction
170 002 | CCN: 33129
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course is about attention and distraction: how optical and digital media from the 19th century to today have contributed to cultural debates about how we attend to our world. We'll read about the moral panics that... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – That's Entertainment!: Theorizing the Musical
171 001 | CCN: 24952
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 3:30pm - 4:59pm
In many ways, cultural attitudes toward the genre of the movie musical are metaphors for cultural attitudes towards films themselves. Often dismissed as “mindless entertainment,” or “unrealistic,” the American musical raises our greatest fears (and joys) about... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – East Asian Horror
171 003 | CCN: 33963
Instructor: Daniel Cuong O'Neill, Jinsoo An
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W 8:00am - 9:29am
East Asian Horror: In this course, we will engage with a range of works in East Asian horror cinema (Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) and explore their power to provoke and disturb, in relation to... More -
Auteur Theory – Auteurs of Anime
172 001 | CCN: 31381
Instructor: Miryam Sas
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course, which serves as an introduction to anime studies, examines the many different forces of creativity that go into Japanese animation. Listed under the “auteurs (authors/directors) of anime” course listing, this course will delve into the... More -
Introduction to Screenwriting
180 001 | CCN: 23301
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 workshop outlines and... More -
Introduction to Screenwriting
180 002 | CCN: 32226
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TU 1:00pm - 3:59pm
In this introductory screenwriting course students will explore various approaches to screenwriting for a variety of filmmaking forms, including fiction, non-fiction and experimental modes. Students will complete two short screenplays over the course of the term. ... More -
TV Writing
182 001 | CCN: 24207
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... More -
Documentary Cinema – “Documentary Cinemas”
184 001 | CCN: 32303
Instructor: Deniz Göktürk
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course surveys the history, theory and practice of the genre called documentary cinema in a transnational horizon. We will explore what this amorphous and vague term means and examine the ways its forms and ethics have... More -
Intermediate Moving Image Production
185 001 | CCN: 23300
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 30
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: 25825
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Berkeley Art Museum LL14
Date and Time: M 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: 26427
Instructor: Jeffrey A Skoller
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TU 10:00am - 12:59pm
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 -
Documentary and Non-fiction Media Production
188 002 | CCN: 32996
This course focuses on practices and techniques of non-fiction film and media. The course examines important techniques of non-fiction media production, such as research and writing for non-fiction; the observational camera; filming in public; the interview; voiceover... More -
Advanced Film Writing
194 001 | CCN: 24777
This course serves to instruct undergraduate Film majors in advanced film and media studies analysis, research, and writing. A variety of forms of writing will be undertaken, including film analysis, research scholarship, essay argumentation, film reviewing and... More -
Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates
199 002 | CCN: 34202
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Date and Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Reading and conference with the instructor in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable the student to write an essay based upon his/her study. ... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 21416
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
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 – Black Film and Visual Culture
30 001 | CCN: 24766
Instructor: Rizvana G Bradley
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
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: 24768
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course will focus on the industrial, technological, and aesthetic history of television. ... More -
Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Visual Culture
C146B 001 | CCN: 32947
Instructor: Paola Bacchetta
Date and Time: TU 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course examines modern visual cultures that construct ways of seeing diverse sexualities. Considering Western conventions of representation during the modern period, we will investigate film, television, and video. How and when do “normative” and “queer” sexualities... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Gooey, Liquid, Incomputable: Writing About New Media Art and Material Histories of Tech
R1A 001 | CCN: 21376
Instructor: Lou Silhol Macher
Location: Dwinelle 263
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
We all use so-called “new media” in our everyday lives: from computer software to AI-powered apps, these platforms and technologies are the result of the digital turn. New media are difficult to define however, perhaps primarily because... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – The Trap of the Visual: An Inquiry into Trans* Cinemas
R1A 002 | CCN: 25819
Instructor: Isaac Arland Preiss
Location: Dwinelle 89
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
“This is the trap of the visual: it offers–or, more accurately, it is frequently offered to us as–the primary path through which trans people might have access to livable lives.” -Tourmaline, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton, Known... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – “The Illusion of Life”: Animation and Character
R1A 003 | CCN: 26034
Instructor: Pamela Leandra Weidman
Location: Dwinelle 262
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Animated films love to represent their own processes of animation. American cartoons stretching from the 1910s through to the present insistently show off their new techniques and technologies; their labor-intensive modes of production; and their artificiality. Above... More -
Accelerated Reading and Composition
R1A 019 | CCN: 23477
Instructor: Tory Adkisson
Location: Haviland 321
Date and Time: M, W 12:00pm - 2:59pm
This course will explore representations of mental illness and mental health across a variety of media including literature, comics, film, and video games. We will consider how discussions around mental health and wellness have shifted in popular... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – The Medium of Memory
R1B 001 | CCN: 24208
Instructor: Yvonne Lin
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
The development of film and photography radically shifted what we remember of the past and how we remember it. Not only does film technology make possible new forms of recording and storing actual events, it also changes... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – A JAPANESE HISTORY OF “NEW” MEDIA
R1B 002 | CCN: 25821
Instructor: Chelsea Morgen Ward
Location: Dwinelle 263
Date and Time: TU, TH 5:00pm - 6:29pm
When we think of new media, we usually think of global technology and the digital realm. But what makes media “new”? How have local contexts shaped the development, spread, and experience of what we now think of... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – The Digital Mundane
R1B 003 | CCN: 26036
Instructor: Annie Golda Felix
Location: Dwinelle 189
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Taking the personal computer user as its starting point, this course considers the ways in which digital technologies have seeped into the ordinary routines of everyday life. I’m writing here about the quotidian practice of using and... More