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Special Topics in Film Genre: Eco-criticism and the Genres of Nature
108 | CCN: 31693
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: TUTH 930-11A, 188 DWINELLE
Late 20th-century scholars struggled to articulate the scope and aims of "eco-criticism", a mode of critical inquiry that sought to account for the ways that cultural texts describe the natural world and the forces that inhabit and... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre: Animation
108 | CCN: 31669
Instructor: Russell Merritt
Date and Time: F 230-4P, 142 DWINELLE
We will study the major currents in international animation from the silent pioneering work of Emile Cohl, Winsor McCay, and Otto Messmer through animé, independent avant-garde work, and major currents in international 3D animation. The course revisits... More -
Documentary Film
128 | CCN: 31708
Instructor: Linda Williams
Date and Time: TUTH 2-330P, 142 DWINELLE
This course surveys the history, theory and practice of the documentary, aka “non-fiction,” film and video. We will explore the term and examine the ways its forms and ethics have changed since the beginning of cinema. We... More -
Special Topics in Film: The Cinema of Intimacy
140 | CCN: 31720
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: F 1-4P, 188 DWINELLE
What do we mean when we talk about intimacy in, or with, the cinema? What are the cinema’s discourses about friendship, love, birth, and death? Perhaps more troublingly, how is the cinema, as an art form and... More -
Special Topics in Film: The Cinema of Italian Migration
140 | CCN: 31728
Instructor: Laura Ruberto
Date and Time: TUTH 1-230P, 188 DWINELLE
This course begins with the idea that modern Italy is a nation of emigrants, a premise well-illustrated by film and other forms of popular culture. Given the high numbers of Italians who have immigrated to the United... More -
Special Topics in Film: Sound
140 - 001 | CCN: 31717
Instructor: Mark Berger
Date and Time: TUTH 730-9P, 142 DWINELLE
This course will explore the nature, evolution, use, and abuse of sound in cinema. From the first silent films, which weren’t presented in silence at all, to current “ride” films, the relation between sound and image... More -
Special Topics in Film: Jane Austen Adaptations
140 - 003 | CCN: 31726
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: F 10-1P, 142 DWINELLE
Because of the vividness of her characters and storylines, which can be readily abstracted from her novels and molded to fit the romantic comedy genre, Jane Austen’s six completed novels have been repeatedly adapted for British and... More -
Auteur Theory: Taiwan Film Auteurs
151 | CCN: 31729
Instructor: Weihong Bao
Date and Time: MW 930-11A, 188 DWINELLE
This class introduces cinema from Taiwan through the lenses of its major film auteurs. We will focus on internationally celebrated auteurs of the New Taiwan Cinema—Hou Hsiao Hsien, Edward Yang, and Tsai Mingliang—by situating their works in... More -
Auteur Theory: Val Lewton
151 - 002 | CCN: 31735
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: MW 1-230P, 142 DWINELLE
Producer Val Lewton oversaw the making of nine legendary horror films for RKO Studios in the 1940s. These films—Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man, The Seventh Victim, The Ghost Ship, Curse of the... More -
Soviet Film Style, from Silence to Sound
160 - 001 | CCN: 31747
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
Date and Time: MW 2-330P, 188 DWINELLE
This semester we will focus on a number of great Soviet silent filmmakers – Eisenstein, Kozintsev and Trauberg, Kuleshov, and Vertov – and follow the evolution of their film style as they made the transition into sound.... More -
Berlin/Hollywood: German Expressionism and Popular Cinema
160 - 002 | CCN: 31749
Instructor: Anton Kaes
Date and Time: W 11-2P, 188 DWINELLE
German expressionist cinema of the 1920s was a laboratory in which a modernist film language was invented. The aim of this course is to investigate how the expressionist visual style came to be identified with German art... More -
Beginning Screenwriting
180A | CCN: 31753
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: TU 9-12P, 226 DWINELLE
This writing workshop explores the art and craft of writing a feature length, narrative screenplay. Each student pitches three story ideas, chooses one concept to develop into an outline and then completes the first act of the script. Lecture topics... More -
Digital Video: Architecture of Time
185A | CCN: 31754
Instructor: Mark Berger
Date and Time: MW 10-1P, 135 DWINELLE
This hands-on studio course is designed to present students with a foundation-level introduction to the skills, theories, and concepts used in digital video production. As digital technologies continue to expand our notion of time and space, value... More -
Special Topics in Moving-Image Production
186 | CCN: 31754
Instructor: Silvia Turchin
This course investigates special topics in, and special technologies of, moving-image production: e.g., experimental film, documentary film, digital special effects, etc. This is a hands-on studio course designed for students who have mastered the basics of moving-image... More -
Advanced Digital Video
187A | CCN: 31756
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Date and Time: TUTH 1-4P, 135 DWINELLE
This hands-on course explores the process of making a narrative short using digital video production. Over the semester, students will write, rewrite, pre-visualize, shoot, direct and edit one project, approximately 12-15 minutes in length. The class... More -
The History of Film (Silent Era)
25A | CCN: 31645
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: MW 930-11A, 142 DWINELLE
In this introductory survey course we will examine the history of cinema from the silent-to-sound revolution of the late 1920s through the international development of film as a transformative technology, art form, and commercial medium up to... More -
The History of Film (Sound Era)
25B | CCN: 31651
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
Date and Time: TUTH 11-1230P, 142 DWINELLE
In this introductory survey course we will examine the history of cinema from the mid-1930s through the international development of film as a transformative technology, art form, and commercial medium up to the present time. In addition... More -
The Craft of Writing – Dream Plays
R1B - 001 | CCN: 31603
Instructor: Jonathan Haynes
Date and Time: MWF 10-11A, 263 DWINELLE
Where do dreams come from? What purposes do they serve? Are we free in our dreams, or do they enslave us (or both)? Is there an art of dreaming? How is art-making, and the enjoyment of art... More -
The Craft of Writing – Dream Plays
R1B - 002 | CCN: 31609
Instructor: Jonathan Haynes
Date and Time: MW 4-530P, 106 DWINELLE
Where do dreams come from? What purposes do they serve? Are we free in our dreams, or do they enslave us (or both)? Is there an art of dreaming? How is art-making, and the enjoyment of art... More -
Craft of Writing — Film Focus
R1B - 003 | CCN: 31615
Instructor: Katherine Guerra and Hannah Airriess
Date and Time: TUTH 330-5P, 109 DWINELLE
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The Craft of Writing – Genre and Technology
R1B - 004 | CCN: 31621
Instructor: Justin Vaccaro and Robert Alford
Date and Time: MW 4-530P, 215 DWINELLE
This course fulfills the second part of the Reading and Composition requirement. We will continue to work on writing analytical, argumentative papers but with an added emphasis on research, both doing research – from generating research topics... More -
The Craft of Writing – “You Must Remember This”: Memory and Media
R1B - 005 | CCN: 31627
Instructor: Lisa Jacobson and Renee Pastel
Date and Time: MWF 11-12P, 215 DWINELLE
This course focuses on the relationship between memory and moving images. How can film capture and reproduce a memory? What role can film play in shaping memory, both on an individual and collective level? What claims does... More -
Craft of Writing — Film Focus
R1B - 006 | CCN: 31633
Instructor: Linda Witkowski and Alina Predescu
Date and Time: TUTH 2-330P, 215 DWINELLE
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The Craft of Writing – “Like a Video Game”: War, Participation and Detachment
R1B - 007 | CCN: 31639
Instructor: Chris Goetz and Fareed Ben-Youssef
Date and Time: MWF 1-2P, 109 DWINELLE
Cinema has held a fascination with war since before the “transition” to narrative–an interest which has both developed and changed over time. This course explores the relationship between mediations of war and the dialectic between participation and... More