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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.061.154 (01)
Lights, Camera, Action: Bogart
Th 5:00PM - 8:00PM
Bucknell, Lucy
Lights, Camera, Action: Bogart AS.061.154 (01)
This mini-course will offer an introduction to the basics of film analysis through a survey of films starring the legendary Humphrey Bogart. Short weekly written responses. No prior experience in film studies required; non-majors welcome. This one-credit course will meet September 3, 10, 17, 24, and will be graded Pass/Fail. Due to the limited number of meetings, perfect attendance is required.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 5:00PM - 8:00PM
Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/50
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.061.145 (01)
Introduction to Digital Video Production: Visual Language
W 3:30PM - 5:50PM, T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Yasinsky, Karen
FILM-PROD
Introduction to Digital Video Production: Visual Language AS.061.145 (01)
This course is a study of the visual language used to create a moving picture. Through screenings and discussion of films, videos, and related readings, students will develop a visual critical facility and will demonstrate this facility in a few response papers to screenings and video projects. The course will focus on image construction, including composition, framing, movement inside the frame and use of light as well as use of sound. Students will learn to be attentive to rhythm and tempo in picture editing and sound. In-class video assignments included, in which students will work in small groups of three. Lab fee: $100
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:30PM - 5:50PM, T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/10
PosTag(s): FILM-PROD
AS.061.218 (01)
Modernist Literature and Film
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Stine, Kyle J.
FILM-CRITST
Modernist Literature and Film AS.061.218 (01)
This course explores the exchange of ideas and techniques between literary modernism and modernist cinema: how Virginia Woolf’s writings on the cinema connect with her use of shifting points-of-view as literary devices, how James Joyce influenced the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and how Eisenstein in turn influenced the American novelist John Dos Passos, how Franz Kafka's frequent trips to the movies reflect in his fiction, and how artists ventured broadly to develop experimental languages for expressing the new speeds and scales of modern life. Additional texts will be drawn from novels, essays, poems, and films from Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Anita Loos, Andrei Bely, Dziga Vertov, Gertrude Stein, Louis Aragon, and René Clair. The course fulfills the writing intensive requirement and involves a series of essays on literature and cinema from a critical perspective.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Stine, Kyle J.
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.267 (01)
Cultural History of the Internet
M 2:00PM - 4:20PM
Stine, Kyle J.
FILM-CRITST
Cultural History of the Internet AS.061.267 (01)
This course offers an introduction to internet studies through the many ways digital culture has touched our everyday lives: memes, blogs, gaming, social networking, instant messaging, and more. From its origins in connecting scientific researchers to its present form as a multi-device, multi-platform web connecting us to everything from each other to our smart homes, the internet has proven that nearly our entire social world can be processed as data and linked up. While this has meant greater connection, it has also raised questions about how we learn, communicate, behave, and organize. The internet has long promised new avenues of personal expression, but it has also brought with it the quandaries of echo chambers, information silos, and disinformation campaigns. In response to these complicating effects, the course offers an opportunity for students to develop the critical mapping tools necessary to orient oneself within this vast cultural network and its rapid historical unfolding.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:20PM
Instructor: Stine, Kyle J.
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/30
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.226 (01)
Special Topics: Writing About Film
T 2:00PM - 4:20PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Mason, Laura
FILM-CRITST
Special Topics: Writing About Film AS.061.226 (01)
A workshop that focuses on writing critical and analytical essays about movies recent and classic. Students will write progressively longer and more complex essays– submitting working drafts and making revisions– and participate in critiques and discussions of one another’s writings. Fulfills Film and Media Studies expository writing requirement. Lab Fee: $50
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:20PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Mason, Laura
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.406 (01)
Animating Cartoons
M 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Yasinsky, Karen
FILM-CRITST
Animating Cartoons AS.061.406 (01)
Animating Cartoons: This class will focus on character animation. Through weekly screenings of cartoons and animations and reading comics, the form will be analyzed in class discussions and short papers. Students will create their own hand drawn character and create an extensive story board for an animation involving their character. A scene will be chosen and a short hand-drawn animation from the storyboard will be created.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/9
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.329 (01)
Left-Handed Endeavors: Crime Film
M 3:00PM - 5:20PM, S 7:00PM - 9:30PM Screenings, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Bucknell, Lucy
FILM-CRITST
Left-Handed Endeavors: Crime Film AS.061.329 (01)
A survey of primarily American, 20th century, popular crime film: hits, heists, cons, organized crime, crimes of passion, and other "left-handed form[s] of human endeavor." Oral presentation, short critical response (5 pp.), essay (12 pp.).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:20PM, S 7:00PM - 9:30PM Screenings, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.316 (01)
Characters for the Screenplay
T 3:00PM - 5:20PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Bucknell, Lucy
FILM-SCRWRT
Characters for the Screenplay AS.061.316 (01)
A workshop devoted to creating complex characters for the screen. Students will examine memorable film characters from the silent era to the present, with attention to how these characters are revealed through both the drama and the mise en scene. Weekly screenings. Short critical and creative written exercises and a longer, creative final project.
Recommended Course Background: AS.061.148 OR AS.061.205 OR AS.061.265
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:20PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/9
PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT
AS.061.346 (01)
Persistence of Vision: Time, Memory and the Past in Recent Global Cinema
Th 1:00PM - 3:20PM, T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
DeLibero, Linda
FILM-CRITST
Persistence of Vision: Time, Memory and the Past in Recent Global Cinema AS.061.346 (01)
This course will examine the ways film represents, remakes, and re-visions cultural and personal memory in a range of recent national and international films, including those by Chantal Akerman, Pedro Almdódovar, Lee Chang-dong, Claire Denis, Joanna Hogg, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Terrence Malick, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christian Petzold, Sarah Polley, Hong Sang Soo, and Jia Zhangke.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 3:20PM, T 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: DeLibero, Linda
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST
AS.061.140 (01)
Introduction to Cinema, 1892-1941
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 2:30PM Screenings, W 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Ward, Meredith C
Introduction to Cinema, 1892-1941 AS.061.140 (01)
This course explores the fundamentals of film analysis and encourages students to embark on an exploration of the first half of our first century of movies. It teaches the basic elements of film form, as well as their use in films across the globe from the turn of the twentieth century through the start of World War II. Movements discussed include the silent comedy of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd, moody German Expressionism, the playful anarchy of Surrealism, the fundamentals of editing with Soviet Montage, the beauty of French poetic realism, the rule-breaking of Pre-Production Code cinema, the work of the young Alfred Hitchcock, and, of course, highlights of classical Hollywood filmmaking. $50 lab fee.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 2:30PM Screenings, W 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
Instructor: Ward, Meredith C
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/36
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.211.333 (01)
Representing the Holocaust
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
Representing the Holocaust AS.211.333 (01)
How has the Holocaust been represented in literature and film? Are there special challenges posed by genocide to the traditions of visual and literary representation? Where does the Holocaust fit in to the array of concerns that the visual arts and literature express? And where do art and literature fit in to the commemoration of communal tragedy and the working through of individual trauma entailed by thinking about and representing the Holocaust? These questions will guide our consideration of a range of texts — nonfiction, novels, poetry — in Yiddish, German, English, French and other languages (including works by Primo Levi and Isaac Bashevis Singer), as well as films from French documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters (including films by Alain Resnais, Claude Lanzmann, and Steven Spielberg). All readings in English.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.399 (01)
Cinema and Philosophy
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Marrati, Paola
Cinema and Philosophy AS.300.399 (01)
Do movies have anything to say about philosophical problems? Why is contemporary philosophy so interested in cinema? What are the most productive ways of bringing films and philosophy into conversation?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Marrati, Paola
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/25
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.343 (01)
The Cinema of Revolution
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Eakin Moss, Anne
INST-GLOBAL
The Cinema of Revolution AS.300.343 (01)
This course examines global political revolutions through cinema and the ways in which cinema helped to make political revolutions. Early cinema was intimately intertwined with the Russian revolution, and Russian revolutionary cinema had a profound impact on the ways in which media was used for revolutionary purposes through the 20th century and around the world. Students will be introduced to films from a number of different countries, and the history and context of their production and reception. They will also learn methods of film analysis and produce their own video essay.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Eakin Moss, Anne
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.211.480 (01)
Religious Themes in Film and Literature
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Stahl, Neta
Religious Themes in Film and Literature AS.211.480 (01)
This course would be of interest to anyone who would like to learn about the intersection of religion and modern culture. At the center of the course will stand a close study of the representation of religious themes and their role in modern literature and cinema. The works which we will deal with are not considered religious and yet they include religious themes as part of their narrative, images, language or symbolic meaning. We will trace in various works from various countries and genre, themes such as: divine justice, providence, creation, revelation, the apocalypse, prophecy, sacrifice and religious devotion. We will also study the ways in which Biblical and New Testament stories and figures are represented in these works. The course will have a comparative nature with the aim of learning more about the differences between the literary and cinematic representations.
