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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 20158
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
125 001 | CCN: 33060
Instructor: Natalia Brizuela
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
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: 30124
Instructor: Rizvana G Bradley
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M 11:00am - 1:59pm
This course will explore experimental film and media at the intersection of contemporary art movements and avant-garde performance. We will begin by studying canonical works of the avant-garde, and then shift to examine feminist, Black, queer, and... More -
Global Media
145 001 | CCN: 27002
Instructor: Tim Tangherlini
Location: Mulford 240
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course will focus on topics in national, transnational, and global cinema, television, photography, and/or new media. ... More -
Auteur Theory – The Showrunner as Auteur: Women, Nonbinary, Queer, and BIPOC Television Auteurs
172 001 | CCN: 25464
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course will interrogate the discursive formation of the showrunner-auteur in contemporary British and American television. More specifically, it will focus on the work of women, nonbinary, queer, and BIPOC showrunner-auteurs. Scholarship will address the discursive construction... More -
Auteur Theory – The Cinema of Tennessee Williams: The Writer as Auteur
172 002 | CCN: 30529
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
“Forgive me if I disappoint you in saying that the face of Greta Garbo, silver and white and black in the dark, had a greater effect on me and my desire to tell stories than all the... More -
Screenwriting
181 001 | CCN: 30531
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TU 1:00pm - 3:59pm
Film 181 is designed for the writer with screenwriting experience. Students will develop and write a portion of a feature length, narrative screenplay or the bible and pilot for an original TV show. Emphasis is... More -
Intermediate Moving Image Production
185 001 | CCN: 27008
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 four group exercises and two individual exercises. Short alternative films and clips from... More -
Advanced Moving Image Production
186 001 | CCN: 24522
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:00am - 11:59am
This advanced digital video production course explores the process of making narrative shorts. Over the semester, each student will write, pre-visualize, direct and edit one project, approximately 10 – 12 minutes in length. Each student... More -
Advanced Moving Image Production
186 002 | CCN: 27009
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Berkeley Art Museum LL14
Date and Time: TU 9:00am - 11:59am
In this advanced film production course students produce a 10 to 20 minute short film and work as cinematographer, sound designer, production designer, editor or producer in a classmate’s film. Student works can be fiction, non-fiction, hybrid... More -
Senior Seminar – Horror and the Cinematic Unconscious
190 001 | CCN: 25467
Instructor: Rizvana G Bradley
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: W 2:00pm - 4:59pm
The philosopher and media theorist Eugene Thacker has argued that “horror is about the paradoxical thought of the unthinkable.” But how might such a conception of horror be complicated, enriched, or problematized if we were to approach... More -
Intermediate Film Writing
193 001 | CCN: 27275
Instructor: Emily West, Alex Creighton
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 3:30pm - 4:59pm
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... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 20867
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 12:30pm - 1:59pm
“Theorizing, as a form of experimenting, is about being in touch. What keeps theories alive and lively is being responsible and responsive to the world’s patternings and murmurings. Doing theory requires being open to the world’s aliveness... More -
Digital Media Studies
35 001 | CCN: 25457
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course will focus on introductory topics related to the field of digital media studies. ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Regarding Violence
R1A 001 | CCN: 10050
Instructor: Jonathan Daniel Mackris, Miles Herbert Taylor
Date and Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Of the questions asked of representation today, chief among them is the issue of how to properly depict violence and the problem of evil. In everyday small talk, one commonly hears two basic positions put forward, one... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Racial Histories of Surveillance Technologies
R1A 002 | CCN: 10051
Instructor: Osarugue Otebele, Lou Silhol Macher
Location: Dwinelle 223
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
Have you ever used apps to help you optimize your sleep, organize your to-do lists or your work schedule, or maybe to track your physical activity and alert you when you’ve reached your x-thousand steps goal? And... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Film Focus: La Jetée
R1A 003 | CCN: 10052
This class will introduce students to college-level reading and writing, as well as to the discipline of film studies, through close, careful study of one film: La Jetée. Chris Marker's 1962 science tells the story of a... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 004 | CCN: 10053
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 – The Interface
R1A 005 | CCN: 31531
Instructor: Julia Irwin
Location: Dwinelle 89
Date and Time: TU, TH 5:00pm - 6:29pm
The word “interface” suggests the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of our devices that facilitate human-computer interactions. With the “internet of things” and “metaverse,” we encounter digital technologies whose interfaces become difficult to perceive, as they are designed... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 001 | CCN: 19921
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 002 | CCN: 19922
Instructor: Nicholas Vila Byers
Location: Evans 41
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
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 – Monsters!
R1B 003 | CCN: 19923
Instructor: Morgan Jennings
Location: Social Sciences Building 180
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Vampires! Werewolves! Zombies! What do monsters—and monster films in particular—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... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 004 | CCN: 19924
Instructor: Gianna Theodora Ward-Vetrano
Location: Evans 31
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
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
R1B 005 | CCN: 19925
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 – Animating the Shadow: Proto-Cinema, Early Film, and pre-Code Sexuality
R1B 006 | CCN: 19926
Instructor: Tulasi Johnson
Location: Dwinelle 189
Date and Time: TU, TH 5:00pm - 6:29pm
When we think of the advent of cinema, we might think of the dramatic, black-and-white, experimental silent films of the 1920s. If we’re looking even further back, we might recall Edweard Muybridge’s generative photographic “animal locomotion” studies... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Healthy Realism: Italian Neo-Realism in Taiwan
R1B 007 | CCN: 19927
Instructor: Matteo Cavelier Riccardi
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
It has been widely argued that Italian Neo-Realism heavily informed the first Golden Age of Taiwanese (ROC) Cinema in the 1960s. Taiwan’s Central Motion Pictures Corporation president championed Italian Neo-Realist cinema as the foundation of a home-grown “Healthy Realism,”... More