printer friendly pageFILMSTUD 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: Aut
| Units: 5
| 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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Greenhough, A. (PI)
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. Course can be repeated twice for a max of 8 units.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Ma, J. (PI)
;
O'Hanlan, S. (TA)
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)
FILMSTUD 245B: History and Politics in Russian and Eastern European Cinema (FILMSTUD 445B, REES 301B)
From 1945 to the mid-80s, emphasizing Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Yugoslav contexts. The relationship between art and politics; postwar establishment of film industries; and emergence of national film movements such as the Polish school, Czech new wave, and new Yugoslav film. Thematic and aesthetic preoccupations of filmmakers such as Wajda, Jancso, Forman, and Kusturica. Permission of instructor required prior to the first day of classes.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Levi, P. (PI)
FILMSTUD 264B: Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination (AMSTUD 143X, ARTHIST 264B)
Course on the history of twentieth and twenty-first century American images of space and how they shape conceptions of the universe. Covers representations made by scientists and artists, as well as scientific fiction films, TV, and other forms of popular visual culture. Topics will include the importance of aesthetics to understandings of the cosmos; the influence of media and technology on representations; the social, political, and historical context of the images; and the ways representations of space influence notions of American national identity and of cosmic citizenship.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Kessler, E. (PI)
FILMSTUD 297: Honors Thesis Writing
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Bukatman, S. (PI)
;
Levi, P. (PI)
;
Meyer, R. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bukatman, S. (PI)
;
Levi, P. (PI)
;
Meyer, R. (PI)
;
Nemerov, A. (PI)
;
Pentcheva, B. (PI)
FILMSTUD 299: Independent Study: Film and Media Studies
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bukatman, S. (PI)
;
Krawitz, J. (PI)
;
Levi, P. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bukatman, S. (PI)
;
Krawitz, J. (PI)
;
Levi, P. (PI)
;
Ma, J. (PI)
;
Mediratta, S. (PI)
;
Meltzer, J. (PI)
;
Samuelson, K. (PI)
;
Tobin, A. (PI)
FILMSTUD 300B: History of World Cinema II, 1930-1959 (FILMSTUD 100B)
The impact of sound to the dissolution of Hollywood's studio system.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Greenhough, A. (PI)
FILMSTUD 301: Fundamentals of Cinematic Analysis (FILMSTUD 101)
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. Course can be repeated twice for a max of 8 units.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Ma, J. (PI)
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