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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 24518
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: 26599
Instructor: Deniz Göktürk
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course will focus on topics in documentary cinema, television, video, photography, and/or new media. ... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Art
135 001 | CCN: 24528
Instructor: Jaimie Rachel Baron
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W 11:30am - 12:59pm
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 – Global Queer Cinema
145 001 | CCN: 26486
Instructor: Iggy Cortez
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
This course explores how queer cinema is mutually articulated with the contested notion of the global. In what ways does queerness help us to imagine a different world order? And how might post-colonial critique, critical race theory... More -
Media Technologies – Digital Game Cultures
155 001 | CCN: 31089
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 10:00am - 11:29am
This class offers a broad introduction to the phenomenon of video games, focusing primarily on Western U.S. histories and cultural practices. We will investigate the relationship between play and games, learn how to analyze and practice basic... More -
Special Topics in Film – Cinema and Wonder
170 001 | CCN: 24532
Instructor: Jaimie Rachel Baron
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 8:00am - 9:29am
Many who first encountered cinema in its early days were filled with wonder at the sight of moving images of the “real,” at the unprecedented capture and preservation of “time itself.” Although we have become habituated to... More -
Special Topics in Film – Bodies in Contemporary Horror
170 002 | CCN: 26986
Instructor: Daniel Cuong O'Neill
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W 10:00am - 11:29am
The course explores how horror cinema unsettles the integrity of the human body by rearticulating the relations between viewers and the screen; the spectacle and the networked; the spectral and the virtual. We will raise questions... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – The Politics of the Melodramatic Mode
171 001 | CCN: 24690
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 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 -
Special Topics in Film Genre
171 002 | CCN: 31091
This class covers a century of popular genre and media in China across Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will study a few popular genres—musical, martial arts, comedy, animation—but also explore the broad horizon of media such... More -
Introduction to Screenwriting
180 001 | CCN: 23249
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 -
TV Writing
182 001 | CCN: 24048
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 -
Intermediate Moving Image Production
185 001 | CCN: 23248
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: 25302
Instructor: Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez
Location: Requested General Assignment
Date and Time: M 9:00am - 11:59am
Intermediate Moving Image Production will provide critical and technical skills to develop different moving image creation forms. The course will emphasize non-fiction and autoethnographic or hybrid forms of storytelling, but the student can choose any cinematographic genre... More -
Special Topics in Media Production – The Essay Film
187 001 | CCN: 33078
Instructor: Tijana Petrović
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: M 12:00pm - 2:59pm
“Unlike the documentary film, which presents facts and information, the essay film produces complex thought – thought that, at times, is not grounded in reality but can be contradictory, irrational and fantastic.” – Nora Alter, from ‘The... More -
Intermediate Film Writing
193 001 | CCN: 31092
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: M, W 9:30am - 10:59am
Moving-image media are compelling sites of cultural work. Writing about motion pictures poses peculiar challenges – and offers distinct pleasures – for students in disciplines across the university. Yet it is unusual for a course that analyzes... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 21484
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle B45X
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
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
30 001 | CCN: 24524
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
The goal of this course is to focus on particular issues in film aesthetics as a way to understand the relationships between film, culture, and politics. Film Aesthetics familiarizes students with some of the major technological and... More -
Television Studies
45 001 | CCN: 24526
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 8:00am - 9:29am
This course will focus on the industrial, technological, and aesthetic history of television. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 001 | CCN: 21444
Instructor: Sam Jackson
Location: Social Sciences Building 80
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
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
R1A 002 | CCN: 25298
Instructor: Nicholas Vila Byers
Location: Dwinelle 263
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
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 – Trans Cinema’s Oppositional Practices
R1A 003 | CCN: 25411
Instructor: Isaac Arland Preiss
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
The term “transgender tipping point” has been used to describe the upswell, in the twenty-tens, of gender variance in mainstream media. But visibility, for transgender people and other subjugated groups, has never been unproblematically associated with political... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – How “Big Data” Became Big
R1A 004 | CCN: 31043
Instructor: Joseph Coppola
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: M, W 6:30pm - 7:59pm
“Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Black Art/Film Aesthetics
R1B 001 | CCN: 24049
Instructor: Osarugue Otebele
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
Since and prior to Stuart Hall’s critical 1993 essay “what is this Black in Black popular culture,” the question of Black aesthetics has been central to Blacks critical thought. Broad in its own sense, the concept of... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – How “Big Data” Became Big
R1B 002 | CCN: 25300
Instructor: Joseph Coppola
Location: Social Sciences Building 180
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
“Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – How “Big Data” Became Big
R1B 003 | CCN: 25413
Instructor: Joseph Coppola
Location: Social Sciences Building 80
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
“Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Film and the Environment
R1B 004 | CCN: 31051
Instructor: Booth Wilson
Location: Evans 5
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
Films have provided some of the most memorable, emotionally compelling images of nature that circulate in popular culture and an important means for environmental activism. To a greater extent than written media, cinema also directly affects the... More