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Save the Date!

The Film & Media Department Commencement Ceremony will take place on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2PM.

This will be a virtual ceremony.

More info to follow. 

The Eisner Prize is the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus. This online edition of the annual Eisner competition screening, presented at BAMPFA since 1991, features this year’s prizewinner and honorable mentions in the film and video category. It offers an opportunity to see a wide range of work made by UC Berkeley students, from narratives and documentaries to experimental and essay films.

SCANDIN 115: Nordic Television and its Global Remakes

*This course is cross-listed with Film 145-001, fulfills the Global Media requirement in the Film & Media major

JAPAN 189: Topics in Japanese Film – Japanese and Transnational Asian Film and Media

San Francisco Cinematheque has a number of internships open in support of our online screenings, film festival curation and archives projects. Current internships are entirely remote work experiences. See the Volunteer/Internships page of their website for more information about San Francisco Cinematheque and the internships available. 

Fall 2020 – Pre-Approved Extra-Departmental Undergraduate Film & Media Electives

1) KOREAN 186: Introduction to Korean Cinema

*This course also satisfies the Global Media requirement under the new Film & Media curriculum

The Department of Film & Media is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Knapp as its new Department Chair effective July 1, 2020. Jeffrey Knapp is the Eggers Professor of English at Berkeley and a Faculty Affiliate of Berkeley’s Department of Film & Media.  After undergraduate and then graduate study at Berkeley, Knapp taught at Harvard for three years before returning to Berkeley in 1990.

Pre-Approved Extra-Departmental Undergraduate Film & Media Electives for Spring 2020

1) Ethnic Studies 190-001: Advanced Seminar in Comparative Ethnic Studies – “Displaying Race, Displaying Culture: Exhibitions, Film, Photography”

The Department of Film & Media is now accepting applications for the position of Assistant Professor, Critical Race Theory and Media.

If you’re interested in applying, follow this link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF02235

Due to the COVID – 19 pandemic, the Spring 2020 Film & Media Department Commencement Ceremony that was planned to take place Thursday, May 21st in Zellerbach Auditorium has been postponed. More updates to follow. 

Pre-Approved Film Electives for Fall 2019

English 166, section 002: Literature in the Century of Film

SSeasn 120, section 001: Film, Visual Media, and Spectatorship Practices in Modern South Asia

Save the Date!

The Film & Media Department Commencement Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 at 2:00PM in Zellerbach Auditorium.

More info to follow.

Pre-Approved Film Electives for Spring 2019

German 186 – Transnational Cinemas: Situating Spectatorship in the Digital Era

English 190 – 013 – Sixties Cinema

Pre-Approved Film & Media Electives for Fall 2018

Italian 160 – Italy on screen’: Cinema, Politics and Modernity

Italian 170 – The Italian Cinema: History, Genres, Authors

Donald Sosin, a famous composer and silent movie accompanist, held a master class on the unique art form at BAMPFA on Monday June 4th. The SF Chronicle wrote a great article on the event.

We are pleased to welcome Ellen Rae Spiro as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2018. She has been a Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas since 1998.

The following courses have been approved to count for upper-division elective credit in the Film Studies major for Spring 2018.

Please visit their respective department websites for course descriptions and further information. 

French 170 – CN:39629   (25 seats) 
French Films: Introduction to French Cinema 

French 141 – CN:39616   (40 seats)
French Studies in an International Context
France, Europe and the Refugee "Crisis": Explorations in Fiction and Film

Congratulations to our graduates in the class of 2017!

Join us Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 at 2:00 pm in Zellerbach Hall for the commencement ceremony. Students, please make sure you have pre-purchased your guest tickets in the Film department office. 

Go Bears!

The following courses have been approved to count for upper-division elective credit in the Film Studies

major for Fall 2017. Please visit their respective department websites for course descriptions and

further information. 

ANTHRO 138A – History and Theory of Ethnographic Film

ART 171 – Digital Video: The Architecture of Time

CHICANO 135B – Latino Narrative Film Since 1990

ENGLISH 173 – The Language and Literature of Films