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Film Genre: Western Noir
108-002 | CCN: 24293
Instructor: Eileen Jones
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 -
Film Genre – Weird Science: Technology and the Body in Science Fiction Cinema
108-003 | CCN: 32582
Instructor: Emily West
This course investigates how contemporary science fiction cinema redraws boundaries between human and non-human flesh, natural and artificial intelligence, living and non-living matter. Beginning with the body-horror science fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s, we... More -
Documentary Film
128 | CCN: 24296
Instructor: Natalia Brizuela
This course surveys the history, theory and practice of documentary film and video. We will explore the term and the way it has changed, as a term and as a practice, since the beginning of cinema. We... More -
Special Topics in Film – The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema
140-001 | CCN: 24298
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
In this course, we will examine the use of the close-up and the concept of scale in the cinema and in film theory, from the early “cinema of attractions” to widescreen cinema of the 1950s to IMAX. ... More -
Special Topics in Film: After the Digital
140-003 | CCN: 32628
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
This course will examine the influence of digital technology on contemporary film and visual media. Drawing on art history, cinema studies, architecture, and media studies we will historicize the radical shift brought about by digital technology while... More -
Auteur Theory: The Films of the Coen Brothers
151-001 | CCN: 24300
Instructor: Eileen Jones
In this course we will examine the films of the writer-director-producer team Joel and Ethan Coen in terms of the ways in which these films confirm, challenge, and provide insight into existing theories of film authorship. The... More -
Auteur Theory: Sergei Eisenstein
151-002 | CCN: 39090
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
In this class, presented in coordination with the Pacific Film Archive, we will study the life and works of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948), one of the most famous and creative filmmakers of the early twentieth century. From Strike to Ivan... More -
Beginning Screenwriting
180 | CCN: 24304
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
Students explore the art and craft of writing a feature length, narrative screenplay. Each writer pitches three story ideas, chooses one concept to develop into an outline/treatment and then completes the first act of the script (approximately... More -
Documentary and Nonfiction Film Production
184 | CCN: 41549
Instructor: Ellen Rae Spiro
This class focuses on practices and techniques of non-fiction digital filmmaking. The class examines important techniques of non-fiction film, such as research and writing for non-fiction, the observational camera, filming in public, the interview, voiceover, working with... More -
Advanced Digital Production: The Narrative Short
187 | CCN: 24305
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
This hands-on workshop explores the collaborative process of making a narrative short. Over the semester, students will write, rewrite, pre-visualize, direct and edit one digital video project, approximately 10 – 12 minutes in length. Each student will... More -
Film and Media Cultures
20 | CCN: 31874
Instructor: Emily West
This course introduces students to ways of thinking about “film” and “media” – including print media, photography, television, video, and digital media – as cultural objects that not only carry meaning, but that help create the world in which... More -
History of Film: Silent-WWII
25A | CCN: 31876
Instructor: Emily West
This course walks students through the history of cinema from an examination of the earliest proto-cinematic optical devices to the first experiments with sound film. As students learn the history of these technological, aesthetic, and narrative developments, they will... More -
History of Film (1935 – 2018)
25B | CCN: 24290
Instructor: Eileen Jones
In this introductory survey course we will examine the history of cinema from the impact on national cinemas of the rise of Fascism in 1930s Europe through the international development of film as a transformative technology, art... More -
The Craft of Writing
R1A - 001 | CCN: 24278
Instructor: Katherine Guerra
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The Craft of Writing: The Myth of Romantic Love in Hollywood and World Cinema
R1B - 001 | CCN: 24280
Instructor: Dolores McElroy & Tyleen Kelly
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: The Quotidian
R1B - 002 | CCN: 24281
Instructor: Chi Li & Simona Schneider
Images of everyday life have been a popular attraction since the birth of cinema. Throughout the twentieth century, the quotidian has played a starring role in multiple important aesthetic movements such as Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, the... More -
The Craft of Writing: Boxing Films
R1B - 003 | CCN: 24282
Instructor: Eliot Bessette
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Robert De Niro's weight gain, "Eye of the Tiger": boxing films have a knack for culturally enshrining and transforming their content. The artists drawn to boxing films read like a Who’s Who... More -
The Craft of Writing: Colonialism and the Image
R1B - 004 | CCN: 24283
Instructor: Jennifer Alpert & Diana Ruiz
In this course, we will challenge the notion that colonialism is a relic of the past by focusing on colonialism’s role in cinema. More than simply the annexation of land by another national power, colonialism exists in... More -
The Craft of Writing – Seeing Double: Reality and Representation
R1B - 005 | CCN: 24284
Instructor: Renée Pastel & Lida Zeitlin Wu
Though the origins of the doppelgänger figure can be traced to early movements such as Romantic and Gothic literature well predating cinema, double and doubled images have been portrayed on screen since film’s inception. In this course... More