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Introduction to Cinema, 1960-present AS.061.141 (01)
Introduction to Cinema provides an overview of American and international cinema from 1960 to the present. Through lectures and discussion, weekly screenings, and intensive visual analysis of individual films, we will explore the aesthetic, cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped the art and industry of film over the past 60 years. Regular quizzes, writing assignments, class participation required. Mandatory film screenings.
This course introduces students to basic considerations of shooting 16mm film. Through lectures and practice, the course approaches the basics of light meter readings, basic camera operations and shot composition. The course also highlights specific readings from classical film theory to augment weekly shooting exercises. Each week students, working in groups, shoot film exercises, providing a general overview of film production. For the final project, each group shoots and edits (physical edits) a short (3-5 minutes) film on 16mm black and white reversal film stock.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Mann, John
Room: The Centre 216
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 4/10
PosTag(s): FILM-PROD
AS.061.152 (01)
Introduction to Digital Video Production
W 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Roche, Jimmy
The Centre 239
FILM-PROD
Introduction to Digital Video Production AS.061.152 (01)
This course introduces students to the world of digital filmmaking. Through screenings, production assignments, and in-class labs, students will develop proficiency in digital
cameras, sound recording devices, and software. Students will work individually to produce several video projects. For their final projects, students will pitch an idea and develop a more complex film.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Roche, Jimmy
Room: The Centre 239
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 0/10
PosTag(s): FILM-PROD
AS.061.205 (01)
Introduction to Screenwriting
M 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Rodgers, Adam F; Sharman, Russell L
The Centre 206
FILM-SCRWRT
Introduction to Screenwriting AS.061.205 (01)
In this course we will explore the basic principles of visual storytelling in narrative film as they apply to the design, creation, and revision of the screenplay. Specifically, we will focus on learning the craft of screenwriting — strategies, processes, and philosophies that writers can develop, practice, and rely upon as they progress through a series of screenwriting exercises and write three short screenplays, which will be critiqued in-class during weekly table reads and with the Instructor (one-on-one) during office hours. Select professional screenplays will be read and analyzed — and clips from select films viewed — to further explore what works well on the page, and how it translates to working well onscreen. Final Draft screenwriting software is required; a FREE 18-week trial will be made available for all students who don’t already have Final Draft.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F; Sharman, Russell L
Room: The Centre 206
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT
AS.061.219 (01)
Special Topics: Animation Workshop
T 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Yasinsky, Karen
The Centre 216
Special Topics: Animation Workshop AS.061.219 (01)
Students will produce several animations using hand-made techniques, including drawing
animation, paper puppets and stop-motion. Screenings and readings will provide a historical and conceptual context to the exploration of animation as an experimental technique within both narrative and non-narrative works.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
Room: The Centre 216
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.233 (01)
Intermediate Digital Video Production: Adobe After Effects
Th 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Roche, Jimmy
The Centre 239
FILM-PROD
Intermediate Digital Video Production: Adobe After Effects AS.061.233 (01)
This course will serve as an introduction to Adobe After Effects. Students will learn a variety of motion graphics techniques such as digital character animation, rotoscoping, motion tracking, chroma key compositing and automating 3D cameras. Through screenings and discussions students will gain insight into the myriad of ways After Effects is used in Film and Television. Throughout the semester students will complete several short video art projects.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Instructor: Roche, Jimmy
Room: The Centre 239
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 4/12
PosTag(s): FILM-PROD
AS.061.238 (01)
Reading the Moving Image
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Bucknell, Lucy
Hodson 303
FILM-CRITST
Reading the Moving Image AS.061.238 (01)
This course will emphasize close observation and critical thinking. Through weekly screenings and class discussion, students will practice noticing; seeing and hearing with fresh eyes and ears, and taking nothing on screen for granted. And they’ll learn to reflect on and contextualize what they find, drawing evolved conclusions about how film texts communicate ideas and what those ideas may be. They’ll consider all elements of cinematic form; an array of analytical frameworks including genre, historical era, authorship, and modes of production; and representations of gender, race, and class. Regular quizzes, a short oral presentation, and a short written analysis. No prior experience in film studies required; majors and non-majors welcome.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
Room: Hodson 303
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.263 (01)
Poetry and the Moving Image
Th 3:30PM - 6:00PM, T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Yasinsky, Karen
FILM-CRITST
Poetry and the Moving Image AS.061.263 (01)
Using P. Adams Sitney's text: The Cinema of Poetry, this course will explore the relationship between poetry and the moving image. When experimental film began to define itself in the 1950s and 60s the terms cine-poem and film-poem were ubiquitous as identifying avant-garde cinema. Poetic structures in the moving image will be studied in relation to language, images and formation of meaning. Students will independently research a poet who greatly inspired and influenced a filmmaker/moving image artist and write on that filmmaker's work. One moving image project will be undertaken and completed during the semester as well. Weekly assignments will include screenings, reading, writing, and or video work.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 3:30PM - 6:00PM, T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.303 (01)
Podcasting: Critical and Creative Practice
M 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Stine, Kyle J.
The Centre 206
FILM-CRITST
Podcasting: Critical and Creative Practice AS.061.303 (01)
Combining approaches to audio storytelling and multimedia production, this course offers a wide-ranging introduction to the art of podcasting. Students will learn techniques from the innovators of the golden age of radio, read culturally significant radio plays, develop tools for critically listening to and analyzing today’s podcasts, and learn how to research, write for, and produce their own podcasts. Examples will come from a broad sample of narrative, documentary, interview, and discussion-based podcasts. While no formal training in audio production is necessary to take the course, students will be expected to learn the necessary skills to create their own podcasts. In-class demonstrations of microphones, editing software, and approaches to sound design will be offered. The full suite of podcast materials—written copy, cover image, and audio file—will be posted to the JHU FMS Podcasting channel at https://jhufilmandmedia.podbean.com/. Subscribe to the feed on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. $50 lab fee.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Stine, Kyle J.
Room: The Centre 206
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.315 (01)
Screenwriting By Genre
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Bucknell, Lucy
Greenhouse 113
FILM-SCRWRT
Screenwriting By Genre AS.061.315 (01)
Story design for the screenplay with special attention to the genres of comedy, horror, melodrama, and adventure. Regular workshops, short written exercises, and a longer final project.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
Room: Greenhouse 113
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/9
PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT
AS.061.347 (01)
Teens On Screen
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
DeLibero, Linda
The Centre 206
FILM-CRITST
Teens On Screen AS.061.347 (01)
This course will explore changing representations of adolescence in films from the 1950s to today across a range of mainstream Hollywood, independent, and international films. We’ll examine how this dynamic and misunderstood genre shapes and reshapes perceptions of youth, and we’ll discuss the frank and sometimes explosive ways teen films address difficult questions of race, class and sexual identity, often in the guise of “pure” entertainment.
Recommended Course Background: Introduction to Cinema I or Introduction to Cinema II, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: DeLibero, Linda
Room: The Centre 206
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.389 (01)
Women Making Movies (Europe)
T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings, TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Mason, Laura
Hodson 303
FILM-CRITST
Women Making Movies (Europe) AS.061.389 (01)
This course introduces students to some of the most exciting female directors of the 21st century, asking how gender shaped the production and reception of their films. Do particular directors attribute any significance to the fact of being a woman? Does a director's gender shape her choice of subject or how she represents it? Does wider knowledge of works directed by women change our sense of the canon and authorship? Covers non-U.S. films, strongly encouraged for FMS majors and minors. Cross-listed with WGS. No pre-requisite.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings, TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Mason, Laura
Room: Hodson 303
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.396 (01)
Modern Paris on Film
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM, W 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Mason, Laura
Bloomberg 178
FILM-CRITST
Modern Paris on Film AS.061.396 (01)
This course uses French film to examine the history of twentieth-century Paris. We will consider how filmmakers interpreted the social, political, and technological transformations that shaped Paris in the modern era, treating movies as expressions of change and means by which filmmakers comment on it.
Taught in English.
$50 lab fee.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM, W 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Mason, Laura
Room: Bloomberg 178
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.407 (01)
Advanced Screenwriting II
Th 11:00AM - 2:00PM
Rodgers, Adam F
The Centre 206
FILM-SCRWRT
Advanced Screenwriting II AS.061.407 (01)
You’ve just finished the first draft of your feature screenplay or long-format teleplay. If you’re like most mortals, including the teacher of this course, it’s likely to be terrifically average. Here’s the chance to make it good — and possibly great — with a semester’s worth of systematic, high-octane rewriting. Hard labor, creative breakthroughs and a glimpse at what it takes to get Hollywood’s attention included.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 11:00AM - 2:00PM
Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
Room: The Centre 206
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 3/12
PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT
AS.061.413 (01)
Lost & Found Film
W 11:00AM - 1:30PM
Mann, John
The Centre 216
FILM-PROD
Lost & Found Film AS.061.413 (01)
This course explores various elements of film production and filmic expression through a somewhat nebulous field typically described as lost films. Lost films (or as they are sometimes called, "orphan" films) can be generally described as films that have, for a variety of reasons, fallen out of the public view. They frequently come from educational, scientific, medical, or industrial films from the 1950s and 1960s. Using these films as source materials, lost film filmmakers explore and expose cultural conventions, visual icons, and historical value materials. Each week, students are responsible for re-editing sources found on an internet archive site. The assignments follow thematic concerns related to film editing. Students complete a final project (4-8 minutes). All editing for the course is accomplished with non-linear software, generally Adobe Premiere or Final Cut.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 11:00AM - 1:30PM
Instructor: Mann, John
Room: The Centre 216
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): FILM-PROD
AS.061.440 (01)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Mann, John
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (01)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Mann, John
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (02)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Yasinsky, Karen
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (02)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (04)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Roche, Jimmy
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (04)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Roche, Jimmy
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (05)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
DeLibero, Linda
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (05)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: DeLibero, Linda
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (06)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Ward, Meredith C
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (06)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Ward, Meredith C
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (07)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Bucknell, Lucy
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (07)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (08)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Mason, Laura
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (08)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Mason, Laura
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (09)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Rodgers, Adam F
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (09)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times:
Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 2/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.440 (10)
Senior Capstone Project: Production
Stine, Kyle J.
Senior Capstone Project: Production AS.061.440 (10)
Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).
Brazilian Cinema and Topics in Contemporary Brazilian Society
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Hodson 305
ARCH-ARCH, INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
Brazilian Cinema and Topics in Contemporary Brazilian Society AS.211.316 (01)
Course is taught in ENGLISH. Did you know that one of the first Latin American actresses to conquer Hollywood was Brazilian? Did you know that cinema has existed in Brazil since 1895, just six months after the first screening in Paris?
This course is an introduction to both the academic study of cinema as a communicative art and to Brazilian film. The films selected focus on the late 1950s to the present and highlight import episodes and challenges in the advancement of Brazilian society as well as its cinematic production. Film aesthetics are analyzed through a number of critical perspectives, including class, race, gender as well as ethnicity, nationalism or national identity, colonialism, social changes, and the politics of representation. In this sense, the films, and documentaries that we will be watching and studying encompass the period from the rise of New Cinema (Cinema Novo) up to films exploring the most recent trends, including movies launched up to 2022. Students wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. No Prereq.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Brazilian Cinema and Topics in Contemporary Brazilian Society
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Hodson 305
ARCH-ARCH, INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL
Brazilian Cinema and Topics in Contemporary Brazilian Society AS.211.316 (02)
Course is taught in ENGLISH. Did you know that one of the first Latin American actresses to conquer Hollywood was Brazilian? Did you know that cinema has existed in Brazil since 1895, just six months after the first screening in Paris?
This course is an introduction to both the academic study of cinema as a communicative art and to Brazilian film. The films selected focus on the late 1950s to the present and highlight import episodes and challenges in the advancement of Brazilian society as well as its cinematic production. Film aesthetics are analyzed through a number of critical perspectives, including class, race, gender as well as ethnicity, nationalism or national identity, colonialism, social changes, and the politics of representation. In this sense, the films, and documentaries that we will be watching and studying encompass the period from the rise of New Cinema (Cinema Novo) up to films exploring the most recent trends, including movies launched up to 2022. Students wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. No Prereq.
Credits: 4.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
Japanese Animation: History, Theory, Ecology AS.300.305 (01)
An in-depth introduction to the history of Japanese animation from its origins in the 1910s to the contemporary post-Studio Ghibli era. In this course, we survey the narratives, aesthetic forms, industrial practices, and multimedia marketing strategies that have helped Japanese animation emerge as a global cultural phenomenon with a transnational fandom. What distinguishes “anime” from other practices of animation, and what forms of animation practice are excluded by animecentric narratives of Japanese animation history? What types of consumer behavior and emergent forms of sociality has anime engendered, and why have they come to occupy a central place in debates about postwar visual culture and Japanese (post)modernity? And how has Japanese animation been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement with traditional and emerging media? In tackling these questions, our inquiry will be guided by four distinct methodological approaches that are central to studies of animation and new media: film studies, fan and cultural studies, cyborg theory and posthumanism, and media ecology.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Taylor, Chris Ross
Room: Gilman 55
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.360.409 (01)
Humanities Research Lab: Documentary Pre-Production
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Wegenstein, Bernadette
Gilman 461
Humanities Research Lab: Documentary Pre-Production AS.360.409 (01)
This class will be a hands-on experience for students to be involved in the early stages of a documentary’s making. Students will be working with the professor on researching, planning, and writing the treatment for a documentary about a forgotten feminist play (1927) from pre-Holocaust Vienna, where diversity and progressive thought were still possible. This romantic comedy centers around a self-determined matriarch, Therese, helping her three daughters navigate the expectations of rigid, societal beliefs – often leading by example – as they find their way into adulthood. Moving back and forth between the archive of its time both through the re-appropriation of Nazi newsreels and propaganda films, as well as ephemeral films of the time and the the new staging of the play, the film will take the audience inside a theater space where a vibrant environment of escapism smashes against the harsh reality of its time, which is as vivid as it was 80 years ago.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Wegenstein, Bernadette
Room: Gilman 461
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.371.303 (01)
Documentary Photography
Th 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Caro, Christiana Rose
The Centre 318
Documentary Photography AS.371.303 (01)
In this course, we will explore different genres and approaches to documentary photography and the questions inherent to this mode of image-making. We will explore such themes as representation, storytelling, research, records and archives, journalism, community engagement, and personal perspective. Contemporary issues within our culture and the local Baltimore community will provide inspiration for the work made in this course. Students will produce a final documentary project on a subject of their choice as the culmination of their semester’s work. DSLR cameras are available on loan for the semester. Attendance in first class is mandatory.