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Special Topics in Film: Western Noir
108 - 001 | Rhetoric 131T | CCN: 31651
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: MW 930-11A, 142 DWINELLE
In this course we will examine the hybridization of two American genres, the Western and film noir. We’ll examine how the combined traits of the two genres complicate the social conflicts they depict and defamiliarize their defining... More -
Special Topics in Film: Weird Science: A History of Science Fiction Film
108 - 002 | CCN: 31657
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: MW 930-11A, 188 DWINELLE
This course provides a history of science fiction film from Mélies and Metropolis to The Martian. Moving chronologically from the silent cinema to today, we will examine how science fiction films have functioned as a site for... More -
Special Topics in Film: American Films of the 1950s
108 - 003 | CCN: 31663
Instructor: Russell Merritt
Date and Time: MW 11-1230P, 188 DWINELLE
The 1950s is arguably the most underestimated decade of the twentieth century. The films of its major directors – Elia Kazan, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, John Cassavetes, and, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock point to the rich variety... More -
Documentary Film
128 | CCN: 31669
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Date and Time: TUTH 1230-2P, 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: Sound
140 - 001 | CCN: 31687
Instructor: Mark Berger
Date and Time: TUTH 2-330P, 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: California in the Cinematic Imagination
140 - 002 | CCN: 31693
Instructor: Emily West
Date and Time: TUTH 930-11A, 188 DWINELLE
This course will examine how California has figured in the cinematic imagination as an industrial center and as a landscape of fantasy, site for the formulation and revision of national mythologies regarding the American West. We will... More -
Special Topics in Film: Jane Austen Adaptations
140 - 003 | Rhetoric 130 | CCN: 31699
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, American... More -
Special Topics in Film: Race and Media
140 - 004 | CCN: 31704
Instructor: Kristen Whissel
Date and Time: TH 2-5P, 226 DWINELLE
This course focuses on the construction, representation, and contestation of race and racial identities in film and visual culture, from the late nineteenth century to the present. We will situate films within the historical conditions of their... More -
Auteur Theory: The Studio as Auteur – Disney and Pixar
151 | Rhetoric 132T | CCN: 31705
Instructor: Eileen Jones
Date and Time: MW 1230-2P, 142 DWINELLE
As Paul Wells notes in Animation: Genre and Authorship, Walt Disney is viewed as the key pioneering figure in the creation of the art, commerce, and industry of animation…. Even his fiercest advocates, however, have struggled to name... More -
National Cinema: Dziga Vertov in Context
160 - 001 | CCN: 31717
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
Date and Time: MW 1230-2P, 188 DWINELLE
In this class we will study the life and work of Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman, a name later russified as Denis Arkadievich Kaufman), one of the most innovative filmmakers of the early twentieth century. ... More -
National Cinema: Weimar Cinema and the Modern Experience
160 - 002 | CCN: 31723
Instructor: Anton Kaes
Date and Time: TH 11-2P, 188 DWINELLE
The course uses film to explore the relationship between modern culture and politics in the Weimar era, the turbulent period between the end of World War I in 1918 and Hitler’s assumption of power in 1933. This... More -
National Cinema: Sex, Gender, and Desire in French Cinema
160 - 003 | CCN: 31729
Instructor: Damon Young
Date and Time: TUTH 330-5P, 188 DWINELLE
This course approaches French cinema through the lens of three of its perennial themes: sex, gender, and desire. We will start by considering some of the ways iconic French stars have produced and reflected shifting gender ideals... More -
Beginning Screenwriting
180 | CCN: 31735
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... More -
Documentary and Nonfiction Film/Videomaking
184 | CCN: 31738
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
Date and Time: W 1-4P, 135 DWINELLE
This workshop class focuses on practices and techniques of digital Documentary filmmaking. Working in pairs, the class will make a series of short image and sound exercises and then develop a final Documentary project.The class examines important... More -
Advanced Digital Video Production
187 | CCN: 31741
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 emphasizes the... More -
The History of Film – Sound Era
25B | CCN: 31633
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. Readings will... More -
The Craft of Writing: “Feeling Media”
R1A - 001 | CCN: 31603
Instructor: Renée Pastel and Eliot Bessette
Date and Time: MWF 1-2P, 109 DWINELLE
Why do we watch film and television? Ingmar Bergman said, “No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” Despite the... More -
The Craft of Writing: “You know you’re dealing with the Yakuza, right?” – The Histories and Shockwaves of the Gangster across World Cinema
R1A - 004 | CCN: 31620
Instructor: Justin Vaccaro and Fareed Ben-Youssef
Date and Time: TUTH 5-630P, 2070 VALLEY LSB (effective 01, 26, 16)
The cinematic gangster is "what we want to be and what we are afraid we might become." So argues critic Robert Warshow in his 1954 essay on “The Gangster as Tragic Hero,” and so starts our investigation... More -
The Craft of Writing: Love Scene: Romantic Love in Hollywood and Chinese Cinema
R1B - 001 | CCN: 31621
Instructor: Dolores McElroy and Chi Li
Date and Time: TUTH 930-11A, 109 DWINELLE
The focus of this course is to advance students’ analytical writing skills, and to give them the tools to incorporate original research into their writing. As a springboard for the completion of these goals, we will be... More -
The Craft of Writing: Screwball Comedy
R1B - 002 | CCN: 31627
Instructor: Christopher Goetz and Katherine Guerra
Date and Time: TUTH 930-11A, 106 DWINELLE
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The Craft of Writing: “Didn’t we do this yesterday?”: The loop in moving image culture
R1B - 004 | CCN: 31628
Instructor: Alina Predescu and Kaitlin Forcier
Date and Time: TUTH 5-630P, 107 GPB (effective 02, 04, 16)
This course fulfills the second part of the Reading and Composition requirement, with an emphasis on research. Students will generate research topics, locate and evaluate sources, and write analytical, argumentative papers in which they will integrate and... More -
The Craft of Writing: Coming to Life – Animation and History
R1B - 005 | CCN: 31629
Instructor: Patrick Ellis and Jennifer Alpert
Date and Time: MW 4-530P, 185 BARROWS (effective 02, 03, 16)
This class focuses on the history of animation, broadly conceived. Our elastic approach to the form will consider not only hand-drawn, cel, and forms of digital animation, but sequential art, animated objects, and special effects. In weekly... More -
The Craft of Writing
R1B - 007 | CCN: 31630
Instructor: Robert Alford and Jennifer Pranolo
Date and Time: TUTH 5-630P, 254 SUTARDJA DAI
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