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FILMSTUD 4: Introduction to Film Study

Formal, historical, and cultural issues in the study of film. Classical narrative cinema compared with alternative narrative structures, documentary films, and experimental cinematic forms. Issues of cinematic language and visual perception, and representations of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Aesthetic and conceptual analytic skills with relevance to cinema.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

FILMSTUD 6: Introduction to Digital Media

Media beyond the horizon of cinema and television present unique problems of definition and analysis. Taking the digital - information represented as discrete values - as a reasonable approximation of the mechanics and fantasies of computation, course surveys theoretical approaches to code, networks, and cyberculture. Taking familiar formations like web sites and video games as objects by which to learn how thinkers have understood and envisioned emerging media from the mid-20th century to the present. Students to develop own methodological tools for becoming more critical users of digital media.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Russo, J. (PI)

FILMSTUD 100A: History of World Cinema I, 1895-1929 (FILMSTUD 300A)

From cinema's precursors to the advent of synchronized sound.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

FILMSTUD 100B: History of World Cinema II, 1930-1959 (FILMSTUD 300B)

The impact of sound to the dissolution of Hollywood's studio system.
Last offered: Winter 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

FILMSTUD 100C: History of World Cinema III, 1960-Present (FILMSTUD 300C)

From the rise of the French New Wave to the present.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum

FILMSTUD 101: Fundamentals of Cinematic Analysis (FILMSTUD 301)

The close analysis of film. Emphasis is on formal and narrative techniques in structure and style, and detailed readings of brief sequences. Elements such as cinematography, mise-en-scène, composition, sound, and performance. Films from various historical periods, national cinemas, directors, and genres. Prerequisite: FILMSTUD 4 or equivalent. Recommended: ARTHIST 1 or FILMSTUD 102.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

FILMSTUD 102: Theories of the Moving Image (FILMSTUD 302)

Major theoretical arguments and debates about cinema: realism,formalism, poststructuralism, feminism, postmodernism, and phenomenology. Prerequisites: ARTHIST 1, FILMSTUD 4.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum

FILMSTUD 111: The Body in American Genre Film: From Chaplin to The Matrix (FILMSTUD 311)

The American genre film as a mass form that shares elements with a carnivalesque, folk culture such as a rejection of politeness and piety, and an emphasis on the physical. Genres include comedy, western, war, science fiction, musical, horror, melodrama, gangster, and cult, exploitation, and blaxploitation films. The place of the body onscreen. How does the body exist in relation to the world, other bodies, and the act of perception? What meaning does bodily movement have in relation to narrative?
Last offered: Autumn 2006 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

FILMSTUD 114: Comics (FILMSTUD 314)

The modern medium of comics, a history that spans 150 years. The flexibility of the medium encountered through the genres of humorous and dramatic comic strips, superheroes, undergrounds, independents, journalism, and autobiography. Innovative creators including McCay, Kirby, Barry, Ware, and critical writings including McCloud, Eisner, Groenstee. Topics include text/image relations, panel-to-panel relations, the page, caricature, sequence, seriality, comics in the context of the fine arts, and relations to other media.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:DB-Hum

FILMSTUD 115: Documentary Issues and Traditions (FILMSTUD 315)

Issues include objectivity/subjectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience, and authorial voice. Parallel focus on form and content.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Krawitz, J. (PI)
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