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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 29106
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 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 – Documentary Cinema
125 001 | CCN: 29109
Instructor: Deniz Göktürk
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
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 -
Global Media – Soviet Film Style, from Silence to Sound
145 001 | CCN: 32446
Instructor: Anne Nesbet
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
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. Readings will examine the... More -
Global Media – Contemporary Chinese Language Cinema
145 002 | CCN: 32867
Instructor: Linda C Zhang
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course introduces Chinese language cinema since the late 1970s. Depending on the semester, the class will either focus on the distinct new waves in the three regions of Mainland, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, or cover all... More -
Media Technologies – Cinema After Digitization
155 001 | CCN: 29118
Instructor: Jacob R Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
This course will examine the influence of digital technology on contemporary film and visual media. Drawing on cinema studies, art history, architecture, and media studies we will historicize the radical shift brought about by digital technology while... More -
Special Topics in Film – Cinema of the Anthropocene
170 001 | CCN: 32448
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Selected topics in the study of film. ... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – Bloodsuckers, Aesthetes, and Queers: Tracking the Vampire Genre
171 001 | CCN: 32450
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course is a rigorous theoretical exploration of genre theory and queer theory, and will require a great deal of reading and writing. ... More -
Auteur Theory – Feminist Directions: Agnes Varda and Chantal Akerman
172 001 | CCN: 29124
Instructor: Miryam Sas
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
What is the impact of delving deeply into the work of one director over time, following her life and work in film? How does such a deep dive change our views of time, gender, and cinema? How... More -
Intermediate Moving Image Production
185 001 | CCN: 32452
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 -
Advanced Moving Image Production
186 001 | CCN: 27681
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TU, TH 1:00pm - 3:59pm
This advanced digital production course explores the process of making a narrative short. Over the semester each student will write, pre-visualize, direct and edit one project, approximately 10 – 12 minutes in length. All students... More -
Advanced Moving Image Production
186 002 | CCN: 32453
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Berkeley Art Museum LL14
Date and Time: W 9:00am - 11:59am
In this advanced film production course students produce the 10-20-minute project developed in Film 185, and work as cinematographer, sound designer, production designer, editor or producer in a classmate’s film. The term is broken into three stages... More -
Special Topics in Media Production – Reality-Based Audio
187 001 | CCN: 29127
Instructor: Karel Ernst
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: M, W 3:00pm - 5:59pm
This studio course provides space for experimentation with working with audio which is rooted in the real, with all the openness, inclusivity, and multiplicity that such a concept entails. Students will make recordings, and edit and mix... More -
Senior Seminar – Contemporary Art, Race, and the Philosophy of Media
190 001 | CCN: 29128
Instructor: Rizvana G Bradley
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TU 2:00pm - 4:59pm
This course will interrogate the intersections of the philosophy of media and ‘race’ as a global idea, and explore how such lines of inquiry might open up novel readings of contemporary art. Specifically, we will read race... More -
Intermediate Film Writing
193 001 | CCN: 33028
Instructor: Emily West, Lida Zeitlin-Wu
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: W, F 12:30pm - 1:59pm
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 the moving... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 26498
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course introduces students to ways of thinking about “film” and “media” – including print media, photography, film, and television – as cultural objects that not only carry meaning, but that help create the world in which... More -
Film Aesthetics
30 001 | CCN: 31300
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course will focus on topics in the history, theory and aesthetics of sound cinema. ... More -
Digital Media Studies
35 001 | CCN: 29108
Instructor: Jacob R Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course is about digital media: how it came to be, where it is going, and how we can engage with it critically and creatively. Over the course of five units we will trace both the history... More -
Film Honors Thesis
H195 003 | CCN: 34024
Instructor: Rizvana Bradley
Date and Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Students in the honors program are to take H195 for a letter grade to complete a senior honors thesis. Although the production of a film may be part of the preparation of the thesis and the film... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – The Figure of the Cyborg in Visual Culture and Critical Thought
R1A 001 | CCN: 29085
Instructor: Julia Irwin, Isaac Arland Preiss
Location: Dwinelle 209
Date and Time: M, W, F 1:00pm - 1:59pm
In the 1985 essay “A Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway articulates several boundary breakdowns characterizing late twentieth-century technoscientific culture and their implications for the longstanding foundations of dominant Western thought. Questioning pop-biology and philosophical definitions of the human... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Visualizing the Anthropocene
R1A 002 | CCN: 29086
Instructor: Harry Burson, Mathew Beauchemin
Location: Dwinelle 215
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
What does climate change look like? This course will examine how films and other audio-visual media are representing human impact on the environment, ecological change over time, and a growing awareness of the climate crisis. We will... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Monsters!
R1B 001 | CCN: 29095
Instructor: Morgan Jennings
Location: Dwinelle 215
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
Ghosts! Vampires! Werewolves! What do monsters—and monster films—reveal about the cultures that create and consume them? By looking closely at the various forms in which monstrosity appears on screen, we will analyze how these imagined others are... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – The Technical Delusion: Madness and Media
R1B 002 | CCN: 29096
Location: Dwinelle 263
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Just a few decades ago, those who claimed that the government was conducing secretive mind-control experiments on the public were a fringe group; they were labeled mad and generally ignored. Today, every major news outlet has... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Subverting the Archive: The Art of Reappropriation
R1B 004 | CCN: 29098
Instructor: Allyson Unzicker
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
Whether used as humor, critique or recovery, appropriation and found footage practices continue to influence our relationship to the past by constantly placing our understanding of pastness in flux. Considering various methods of appropriation using found footage... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – For a Philosophy of Evidence
R1B 005 | CCN: 29099
Instructor: Jonathan Daniel Mackris
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
Whether in our academic or personal lives, we all rely on evidence. Papers will often use quotations or examples to illustrate their ideas. Studies in the social sciences provide tables, data, and graphs to present their research.... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – The Digital Mundane
R1B 006 | CCN: 31276
Instructor: Annie Golda Felix
Location: Dwinelle 206
Date and Time: M, W, F 1:00pm - 1:59pm
aking 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 -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 007 | CCN: 31277
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 008 | CCN: 31279
Instructor: Matteo Cavelier Riccardi
Location: Dwinelle 134
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Archival Gaps and Documentary Representation in Latin America and the Caribbean
R1B 009 | CCN: 32540
Instructor: Lázaro Gonzalez
Location: Dwinelle 233
Date and Time: TU, TH 5:00pm - 6:29pm
In this course, we will develop the skills of writing and reading as tools of research. We will examine the history of documentary films in Latin America and the Caribbean from their earlier productions to the present.... More