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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 17091
Instructor: Jaimie Rachel Baron
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course focuses on the earliest years of cinema, from its 19th century prehistory in optical technologies, such as the panorama and photography, to its cultural life at the end of the 1920s. We will consider how... More -
Documentary Forms
125 001 | CCN: 22795
Instructor: Natalia Brizuela
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
This course surveys histories, theories and practices of documentary forms, aka “non-fiction/“nonfiction” in photography, film, video and art. We will explore this term and examine the ways its forms and ethics have changed from the 19th century... More -
Experimental and Alternative Media Art
135 001 | CCN: 21984
Instructor: Iggy Cortez
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
This course is a survey of the history and aesthetics of experimental and alternative media forms and practices situating them in relation to the larger art historical, social and intellectual contexts from which they arise. ... More -
Global Media – Danish Film & Television in a Global Context
145 001 | CCN: 21806
Instructor: Tim Tangherlini
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
The goal of the course is to understand recent Danish production in the context of global cultural flows, and understand how production from the edges—the challenging positionality of a small national cinema/television—has certain affordances that allow for... More -
Global Media – History of French Cinema: Politics and Aesthetics
145 002 | CCN: 31225
Instructor: Damon R Young
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm
Cinema is often said to begin in the Grand Café in Paris in 1895, with the Lumière brothers’ projection of Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory. Since then, French-language cinema has played a key role in defining the... More -
Global Media – Global Queer Cinema
145 002 | CCN: 31237
Instructor: Iggy Cortez
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
This course explores how queer cinema is mutually articulated with the contested notion of the global. In what ways does queerness help us to imagine a different world order? And how might post-colonial critique, critical race theory... More -
Media Technologies – Cinema After Digitization
155 001 | CCN: 31229
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm
How has digital technology transformed the way we make, view, and understand film and moving image media today? This course examines the influence of digital media on film and visual culture over the past 25 years, from... More -
Special Topics in Film – Cinema and the Anthropocene
170 002 | CCN: 31233
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
What is “The Anthropocene?” What do we do with it? How do we live through it? How do we use this concept to expand our understanding of deep time and human agency? To expand our awareness of... More -
Special Topics in Film – Cinema and Subculture
170 003 | CCN: 31235
Instructor: Jaimie Rachel Baron
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
Every subculture has at its center some kind of text, whether it be a K-pop band’s oeuvre, a holy scripture, or a political figure’s slogans. Drawing on subcultural theories and conceptions of taste, this course explores how... More -
Special Topics in Film – Racialization in Asian Diasporic Media
170 004 | CCN: 32817
Instructor: Iggy Cortez
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W 9:30am - 10:59am
This course interrogates the mutual articulation of race and the development of modern technologies including cinema, television, and other modes of modern media. Moving across different periods and media formations, we will address how race as a... More -
Special Topics in Film – DIVA: The Female Voice Onscreen
170 005 | CCN: 33339
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm
If we look to popular media, “diva” can mean just about anyone whose manner of self-presentation puts them on some imagined scale between self-confidence and out-and-out vanity. But there is a history to the term “diva,” beginning... More -
Special Topics in Film – Thinking in Images: Siegfried Kracauer
170 006 | CCN: 33612
Instructor: Nicholas Baer
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 12:30pm - 1:59pm
This course focuses on one of the most important and influential of all film commentators, Siegfried Kracauer, whose career extended from 1920s Germany to 1960s America. We will examine Kracauer’s wide-ranging writings on topics such as gender... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre – Our Others, Our Selves: Race, Gender, and Technologies of the Body in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
171 002 | CCN: 31239
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Science fiction is a highly political genre, historically rooted in Western colonial expansion and directly expressive of imperialist desire and anxiety. This course aims to illuminate the ways in which science fiction film constructs its Others through... More -
Auteur Theory – The Films of Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
172 002 | CCN: 21987
Instructor: Linda Haverty Rugg
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Stockholm in July of 1918, the son of a prominent Lutheran minister. He was one of Sweden’s most important artists, the director of forty-seven films and many significant television productions, a... More -
Screenwriting
181 001 | CCN: 21989
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: TU 9:00am - 11:59am
In this advanced screenwriting workshop each student develops a feature length, narrative screenplay or original pilot. Writers present their material on a regular basis and revise their outlines/scenes based on feedback from their fellow writers. Lectures/discussions include story... More -
Advanced Moving Image Production
186 001 | CCN: 20170
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. Students will also act... More -
Special Topics in Media Production – Alternative Fictions
187 001 | CCN: 31243
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: TH 9:00am - 11:59am
This film production course explores the process of making alternative fiction films. Students direct three group exercises and two individual projects. Short alternative films and clips from longer works from around the world are screened periodically to exemplify... More -
Special Topics in Media Production – Topics in Media Production, Making Digital Infrastructure Visible
187 002 | CCN: 32827
Instructor: Nicole Starosielski
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: M, W 10:00am - 12:59pm
The digital “cloud” is a real place. It is a patchwork of subsea fiber optic cables (the highways of the internet), internet exchanges (the transit hubs of the internet), and data centers (the interconnection points and storage... More -
Senior Seminar
190 001 | CCN: 20858
Instructor: Rizvana Bradley
Date and Time: W 2:00pm - 4:59pm
Intensive study of topics in film and moving-image media. ... More -
Advanced Film Writing
194 001 | CCN: 32119
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 226
Date and Time: M, W 3:30pm - 4:59pm
Interested students should be pursuing ONE OR MORE of the following eventual goals: 1. Have a challenging “capstone” experience that involves honing the writing skills already learned doing coursework in the Film & Media or other majors 2. Apply... More -
Directed Group Study – Filmmaking Basics
198 001 | CCN: 17720
Location: Dwinelle 88
Date and Time: TH 6:00pm - 7:59pm
This course provides an introduction to visual storytelling through motion pictures. No prior experience is required. All you need is a strong interest in filmmaking and enough time to direct a short film. However, if you have... More -
Film and Media Theory
20 001 | CCN: 17094
Instructor: Emily West
Location: Berkeley Art Museum 1T75
Date and Time: TU, TH 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 -
Film Aesthetics
30 001 | CCN: 31221
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
Location: Dwinelle 188
Date and Time: M, W 11:00am - 12:29pm
This course will focus on topics in the history, theory and aesthetics of sound cinema. ... More -
Digital Media Studies
35 001 | CCN: 20855
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
Location: Dwinelle 142
Date and Time: M, W 11:00am - 12:29pm
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 -
Introduction to Moving Image Production
85 001 | CCN: 31223
Instructor: Jeremy Mores McWreath
Location: Dwinelle 135
Date and Time: M 1:00pm - 3:59pm
The objective of this class is to provide a basic technical foundation for digital media production while emphasizing the techniques and languages of creative moving image media from traditional story genres to more contemporary experimental forms. Training... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – How “Big Data” Became Big
R1A 002 | CCN: 17078
Instructor: Joseph Coppola
Location: Dwinelle 233
Date and Time: TU, TH 12:30pm - 1:59pm
“Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – How “Big Data” Became Big
R1B 001 | CCN: 31211
Instructor: Joseph Coppola
Location: Latimer 121
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
“Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Monsters!
R1B 002 | CCN: 17081
Instructor: Morgan Jennings
Location: Social Sciences Building 80
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
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 – documenting natures
R1B 003 | CCN: 17082
Instructor: Benjamin E Beitler
Location: Social Sciences Building 50
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
“By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can know, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the artist.” So writes André Bazin in “The Ontology... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1B 004 | CCN: 17083
Instructor: Booth Wilson
Location: Social Sciences Building 80
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
Films have provided some of the most memorable, emotionally compelling images of nature that circulate in popular culture and an important means for environmental activism. To a greater extent than written media, cinema also directly affects the... More